samarskite

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English

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Etymology

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After Vasilii Evgrafovich Samarsky-Bykhovets in 1847.[1]

Noun

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samarskite (countable and uncountable, plural samarskites)

  1. (mineralogy) A shiny black radioactive mineral that contains a complex mixture of rare earth oxides

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References

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  1. ^ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997
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