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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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Xenotime contains smaller amounts of the radioactive compounds U3O8 and ThO2 than monazite.
This sector includes mining of titanium-bearing minerals such as rutile, leucoxene, ilmenite, xenotime and monazite, and the industrial minerals zircon, kyanite and garnet.
Textures of kyanite, xenotime and monazite, and some staurolite and biotite, indicate that peak metamorphic mineral growth occurred after D 2 deformation.
Zircon, monazite, xenotime and white mica were extracted from the sample.
One of the rarest of the rare earths, lutetium occurs in rare-earth minerals such as laterite clays, xenotime, and euxenite.
Pale brown to yellow xenotime and zircon are abundant as fine crystals up to 2 mm in length in many of the miarolitic granite cavities as well as in pegmatite pockets.

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