Foitite is a mineral in the tourmaline group, it is a vacancy-dominant member of the group. Foitite is in the 'vacancy' group, due to the absence of atoms in the X site.
Foitite is a mineral in the tourmaline group, it is a vacancy-dominant member of the group. Foitite is in the 'vacancy' group, due to the absence of atoms in the X site.
According to the Czech Geological Society, foitite is rare. However foitite is quite common among low-temperature tourmalines and it might be more common than previously thought.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).