Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
Weddellite (CaC2O4·2H2O) is a mineral form of calcium oxalate named for occurrences of millimeter-sized crystals found in bottom sediments of the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. Occasionally weddellite partially dehydrates to whewellite forming excellent pseudomorphs of grainy whewellite after weddellite’s short tetragonal dipyramids. It was first described in 1942.
