Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH,F)₃ .5H₂O

This sample of wavelike is displayed in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Wavellite is a phosphate mineral of aluminum with high fluorine content with the composition Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH,F)₃.5H₂O. The sample at left is about 6x9 cm and is from Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Named in 1805 for William Wavell (1750 - 1829), a physician in Harwood Parish, Devonshire, England, who discovered the mineral.

This Wavellite sample is about 6x10 cm and is from Ronneburg, Thuringen, Germany.