GADOLINITE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does gadolinite mean? 

• GADOLINITE (noun)
  The noun GADOLINITE has 1 sense:

1. a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium

  Familiarity information: GADOLINITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GADOLINITE (noun)

Meaning:

A mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

gadolinite; ytterbite

Hypernyms ("gadolinite" is a kind of...):

mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)

Meronyms (substance of "gadolinite"):

atomic number 4; Be; beryllium; glucinium (a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element)

atomic number 58; Ce; cerium (a ductile grey metallic element of the lanthanide series; used in lighter flints; the most abundant of the rare-earth group)

atomic number 68; Er; erbium (a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium)

atomic number 64; gadolinium; Gd (a ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group)

atomic number 67; Ho; holmium (a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds)

atomic number 65; Tb; terbium (a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite)

atomic number 70; Yb; ytterbium (a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime)

atomic number 39; Y; yttrium (a silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals; used in magnesium and aluminum alloys)