agardite

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noun

Any of a group of copper arsenate minerals that contain varying proportions of several rare earth elements such as cerium, neodymium, lanthanum and yttrium.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounagardite (countable and uncountable, plural agardites)

plural agardites

  1. countableuncountablechemistryAny of a group of copper arsenate minerals that contain varying proportions of several rare earth elements such as cerium, neodymium, lanthanum and yttrium.

Origin

From Agard + -ite, after French geologist Jules Agard.

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Translations

Greek αγαρδίτης
  • αγαρδίτης (agardítis)Translations
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