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What does gadolinite mean?

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  1. (mineralogy) A dark, vitreous mineral that is a complex mixture of silicates of cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, yttrium, beryllium, and iron, with the chemical formula (Ce,La,Nd,Y)2FeBe2Si2O10.
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Other minerals that have been used as a source of rare earths are apatite, euxenite, gadolinite, and xenotime.
It is found with other rare earth elements in minerals such as monazite, cerite, gadolinite, xenotime, and euxenite.
In his 1885 report, Eakins described allanite and gadolinite from the area.
The rare earth metals are found in the minerals gadolinite, samarskite, fergusonite, euxenite and cerite.
In 1797 Ekeberg showed that gadolinite contained another rare earth, which was given the name yttria.
Yttria may be obtained from gadolinite by a similar process to that by which glucina is extracted from the beryl.

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