NOUN
- a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium
How To Use gadolinite In A Sentence
- The most common ores of holmium are monazite and gadolinite.
- With sulphuric acid it forms a salt that is as stable on heating as the sulphates from gadolinite or cerite and, like these, can be completely decomposed by heating with ammonium carbonate.
- It is found with other rare earth elements in minerals such as monazite, cerite, gadolinite, xenotime, and euxenite.
- In his 1885 report, Eakins described allanite and gadolinite from the area.
- Like other rare earth metals, it is found in minerals such as cerite, gadolinite, and samarskite.
- Gadolinite and allanite intergrowths form walnut-shaped vitreous black masses and nodules to 5 cm across.
- Polycrase, or an allied species, was seen implanted upon the gadolinite, this is also new to the region.
- Yttria is found in gadolinite and some other rare minerals. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
- Gadolinite typically occurs as long slender prisms with pyramidal terminations and diamond-shaped cross sections.
- In 1879 a Swedish chemist named Lars Fredrik Nilson was looking for rare earth elements in the minerals euxenite and gadolinite when he discovered erbium and ytterbium; scandium was later separated from the ytterbium. Scandium
