samarskite
See also: Samarskite
English edit
Etymology edit
After Vasilii Evgrafovich Samarsky-Bykhovets in 1847.[1]
Noun edit
samarskite (countable and uncountable, plural samarskites)
- (mineralogy) A shiny black radioactive mineral that contains a complex mixture of rare earth oxides
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References edit
- ^ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997