samarskite

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noun

A shiny black radioactive mineral that contains a complex mixture of rare earth oxides

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounsamarskite (countable and uncountable, plural samarskites)

plural samarskites

  1. countableuncountablechemistryA shiny black radioactive mineral that contains a complex mixture of rare earth oxides

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Origin

After Vasilii Evgrafovich Samarsky-Bykhovets in 1847.

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