samarskite

See also: Samarskite

English

Etymology

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

Noun

samarskite (plural samarskites)

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

Derived terms

References
  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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