xenotime

NOUN
  1. a brown-to-yellow mineral that is a phosphate of yttrium in crystalline form
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How To Use xenotime In A Sentence

  • I dutifully explained that the smoky spots were probably the result of natural irradiation caused by many tiny radioactive mineral grains, possibly monazite or xenotime.
  • Textures of kyanite, xenotime and monazite, and some staurolite and biotite, indicate that peak metamorphic mineral growth occurred after D 2 deformation.
  • It is found with other rare earth elements in minerals such as monazite, cerite, gadolinite, xenotime, and euxenite.
  • Pale brown to yellow xenotime and zircon are abundant as fine crystals up to 2 mm in length in many of the miarolitic granite cavities as well as in pegmatite pockets.
  • Petrographical evidence establishes that peak thermal metamorphism produced largely random growth of kyanite, staurolite, biotite, monazite and xenotime that overprinted those fabrics.
  • Zircon, monazite, xenotime and white mica were extracted from the sample.
  • Other accessory minerals are apatite, zircon, monazite, huttonite and rare xenotime, uraninite and betafite.
  • Xenotime crystals exhibit tetragonal prisms, dipyramids, and pinacoids, whereas zircon may exhibit first- and second-order tetragonal prisms, dipyramids, and pinacoids.
  • I dutifully explained that the smoky spots were probably the result of natural irradiation caused by many tiny radioactive mineral grains, possibly monazite or xenotime.
  • Other accessory minerals are apatite, zircon, monazite, huttonite and rare xenotime, uraninite and betafite.
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