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It looks like that page 109 and 110 in the book about his travel to hungary [1] name the mineral already alunite and this book is from 1822. -- Stone ( talk) 22:12, 30 October 2017 (UTC) reply

Thanks for drawing attention to this discrepancy/error. As a short term change to at least remove the probable dating error, I've changed the text to "this name was contracted by François Beudant three decades later to alunite". GeoWriter ( talk) 19:26, 31 October 2017 (UTC) reply