XENOTIME

 Dictionary entry overview: What does xenotime mean? 

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

1. a brown-to-yellow mineral that is a phosphate of yttrium in crystalline form

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• XENOTIME (noun)

Meaning:

A brown-to-yellow mineral that is a phosphate of yttrium in crystalline form

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Nouns denoting substances

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

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

Meronyms (substance of "xenotime"):

atomic number 69; thulium; Tm (a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group; isotope 170 emits X-rays and is used in small portable X-ray machines; it occurs in monazite and apatite and xenotime)

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)