A white or greyish iron-rich variety of millisite.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Mineralogical Abstracts. From French pallite, from Pallo, the name of the place in Senegal where it is mined + French -ite.
Definition of pallite in US English:
pallite
noun
Mineralogy rare
A white or greyish iron-rich variety of millisite.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Mineralogical Abstracts. From French pallite, from Pallo, the name of the place in Senegal where it is mined + French -ite.