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Monazite

A mineral occurring usually in small isolated crystals, -- a phosphate of the cerium metals.

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Mineral 76% connected

An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except…

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Cerium 70% connected

A rare metallic element, occurring in the minerals cerite, allanite, monazite, etc. Symbol Ce. Atomic weight 141.5. It resembles iron in color and lu…

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Eu 70% connected

A prefix used frequently in composition, signifying well, good, advantageous; -- the opposite of dys-.

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Neodymium 70% connected

An elementary substance which forms one of the constituents of didymium. Symbol Nd. Atomic weight 140.8.

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Praseodymium 70% connected

An elementary substance, one of the constituents of didymium; -- so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6.

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Samarium 70% connected

A rare metallic element of doubtful identity.

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Terbium 70% connected

A rare metallic element, of uncertain identification, supposed to exist in certain minerals, as gadolinite and samarskite, with other rare ytterbium…

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Th 70% connected

In Old English, the article the, when the following word began with a vowel, was often written with elision as if a part of the word. Thus in Chaucer…

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Thorium 70% connected

A metallic element found in certain rare minerals, as thorite, pyrochlore, monazite, etc., and isolated as an infusible gray metallic powder which bu…

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Thulium 70% connected

A rare metallic element of uncertain properties and identity, said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite.

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Ytterbium 70% connected

A rare element of the boron group, sometimes associated with yttrium or other related elements, as in euxenite and gadolinite. Symbol Yb; provisional…

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