tantalite's Usage Examples:

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.

"Berzelius, who prepared tantalic acid from the mineral tantalite in 1820, obtained an impure metal by heating potassium tantalofluoride with potassium.

These elements occur in the minerals columbite and tantalite, and their compounds became known in the early part of the 19th century by the labours of C.

Synonyms:

atomic number 73, Ta, mineral, tantalum,

Antonyms:

organic,