Zeolite Mineral History & Properties September 2nd, 2009
Historically, mineral zeolite was discovered in 1756 by a Swedish mineralogist named Freiherr Axel Fredrick Cronstedt, who derived the name from the Greek words zein and lithos meaning “boiling stones”. Over the next 200 years chemists and mineralogists studied zeolites and discovered the dehydration, adsorption, and cation exchange properties of this mineral.
