gadolinite
IPA: gʌdˈɑɫɪnaɪt
noun
- (mineralogy) A dark, vitreous mineral that is a complex mixture of silicates of cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, yttrium, beryllium, and iron, with the chemical formula (Ce,La,Nd,Y)₂FeBe₂Si₂O₁₀.
Examples of "gadolinite" in Sentences
- It is found associated with gadolinite.
- They also found rhenium in gadolinite and molybdenite.
- Similar compositions are found in xenotime or gadolinite.
- Yttria is found in gadolinite and some other rare minerals.
- Gadolinite is a mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster.
- A rare earth metal, it is found in the minerals monazite and gadolinite.
- Polycrase, or an allied species, was seen implanted upon the gadolinite.
- In this mineral - later called gadolinite, after him - he had found a hitherto unknown earth, the so-called yttria.
- In 1879 a Swedish chemist named Lars Fredrik Nilson was looking for rare earth elements in the minerals euxenite and gadolinite when he discovered erbium and ytterbium; scandium was later separated from the ytterbium.