SAMARSKITE

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Meaning:

A complex black mineral occurring in pegmatites

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("samarskite" is a kind of...):

mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)

Meronyms (substance of "samarskite"):

atomic number 64; gadolinium; Gd (a ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group)

Holonyms ("samarskite" is a substance of...):

pegmatite (a form of igneous rock consisting of extremely coarse granite resulting from the crystallization of magma rich in rare elements)