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What is a baddeleyite?

What is a baddeleyite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (mineralogy) A rare zirconium oxide mineral occurring in a variety of monoclinic prismatic crystal forms.
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Eudialyte occurs primarily along the margins of the leucosomes and is commonly found altered to catapleiite, baddeleyite, lavenite, paraumbite, and barytolamprophyllite.
The element is almost invariably found in conjunction with ores of zirconium, especially zircon and baddeleyite.
But, with the development of new techniques, minerals, such as baddeleyite, can now be successfully recovered.
Two zircon and four baddeleyite single crystals were analyzed.
Interestingly, their first choice of name was brazilite, but that name had already been applied to the mineral baddeleyite.
The U content of these metamorphic baddeleyites is towards the low end of the range seen in igneous baddeleyite, but not sufficiently different to be diagnostic.

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