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yttrocrasite

yttrocrasite noun: an oxide of (primarily) titanium and yttrium, with small to moderate amounts of thorium, uranium, cerium, and calcium substituting for some of the yttrium and traces of iron, tungsten, columbium, and tantalum substituting for some of the titanium.

Noun

yttrocrasite (countable and uncountable, plural yttrocrasites)

  1. An oxide of (primarily) titanium and yttrium, with small to moderate amounts of thorium, uranium, cerium, and calcium substituting for some of the yttrium and traces of iron, tungsten, columbium, and tantalum substituting for some of the titanium.
    • Yttrocrasite, associated with allanite, gadolinite, and fergusonite, occurs as a minor rare earth constituent of the inner intermediate zone.1977, The Mineralogical Record, volume 8, page 90
    • REE-bearing minerals in these occurrences are allanite, betafite, brannerite, davidite, euxenite, fergusonite, florencite, monazite, polycrase, samarskite, synchysite, thorite, xenotime and yttrocrasite.2014, Broder J. Merkel, Alireza Arab, Uranium - Past and Future Challenges: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology, page 27

Forms of yttrocrasite

pluralyttrocrasites

Questions about yttrocrasite

What does yttrocrasite mean?
Yttrocrasite means an oxide of (primarily) titanium and yttrium, with small to moderate amounts of thorium, uranium, cerium, and calcium substituting for some of the yttrium and traces of iron, tungsten, columbium, and tantalum substituting for some of the titanium.
What part of speech is yttrocrasite?
Yttrocrasite is a noun.
What is the plural of yttrocrasite?
The plural of yttrocrasite is yttrocrasites.

Words near yttrocrasite in the dictionary

  1. yttriums
  2. yttro-
  3. yttrobetafite
  4. yttrocerite
  5. yttrocolumbite
  6. yttrocrasite
  7. yttrocrasites
  8. yttrofluorite
  9. yttrofluorites
  10. yttrogummite
  11. yttropyrochlore

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