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XENOTIME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A brown-to-yellow mineral that is a phosphate of yttrium in crystalline form
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("xenotime" is a kind of...):
mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)
Meronyms (substance of "xenotime"):
atomic number 69; thulium; Tm (a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group; isotope 170 emits X-rays and is used in small portable X-ray machines; it occurs in monazite and apatite and xenotime)
atomic number 70; Yb; ytterbium (a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime)
atomic number 39; Y; yttrium (a silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals; used in magnesium and aluminum alloys)
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