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What does xenotime mean?

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  1. (mineralogy) A yellow-brown mineral, yttrium phosphate (YPO4)
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This sector includes mining of titanium-bearing minerals such as rutile, leucoxene, ilmenite, xenotime and monazite, and the industrial minerals zircon, kyanite and garnet.
As a crucial strategic resource, it is mainly contained in bastnaesite, xenotime, monazite, and other minerals.
Zircon, monazite, xenotime and white mica were extracted from the sample.
Xenotime contains smaller amounts of the radioactive compounds U3O8 and ThO2 than monazite.
Textures of kyanite, xenotime and monazite, and some staurolite and biotite, indicate that peak metamorphic mineral growth occurred after D 2 deformation.
One of the rarest of the rare earths, lutetium occurs in rare-earth minerals such as laterite clays, xenotime, and euxenite.

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