[5] Blossite was named for mineralogist F. Donald Bloss of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
[6] Blossite was first described for an occurrence in the “Y” fumarole[7] in the summit crater of Izalco Volcano, El Salvador.
The discovered location of these copper vanadates, in the outer sulfate zone of the fumarole, indicates a sublimation temperature between 100 °C and 200 °C.
[6] Robison et al. conducted quantitative analyses using an ETEC Autoscan microprobe operating at 20kv on a polished sample of blossite-fingerite intergrowth, the results of the oxide weight percentage.
[6] Blossite is part of the copper vanadates class, the V5+ form a tetrahedral coordination surrounded by oxygen atoms.