samarskite's Usage Examples:

25), a metallic chemical element which occurs with the rare earths in the minerals cerite, samarskite, euxenite, monazite, parisite and many yttrium minerals.

It is usually found associated with tantalum, the chief minerals containing these two elements being tantalite, columbite, fergusonite and yttrotantalite; it is also a constituent of pyrochlor, euxenite and samarskite.

The rare earth metals are found in the minerals gadolinite, samarskite, fergusonite, euxenite and cerite.

Cleveite, samarskite and fergusonite contain a little more than monazite.

Throughout his life he paid great attention to the "rare earths" and the problem of separating and distinguishing them; in 1878 he extracted ytterbia from what was supposed to be pure erbia, and two years later found gadolinia and samaria in the samarskite earths.

The element was discovered in 1880 in the mineral samarskite by C.

It is found in the minerals gadolinite, cerite, samarskite and fergusonite, and is usually obtained from cerite.

Synonyms:

Gd, pegmatite, mineral, atomic number 64, gadolinium,

Antonyms:

organic,