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Definition of Fergusonite
1. Noun. A dark mineral consisting of oxides of yttrium and erbium and tantalum and other minerals.
Generic synonyms: Mineral
Definition of Fergusonite
1. n. A mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo- niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson.
Definition of Fergusonite
1. Noun. A mineral composed of oxides of various rare earth elements. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Fergusonite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fergusonite
Literary usage of Fergusonite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rock Minerals: Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1911)
"fergusonite occurs in granite at Rockport, Mass.; with allanite at Amelia Court
House, Va.; in the granite pegmatite in Llano Co.. Texas, with gadolinite ..."
2. Treatise on Mineralogy: Second Part, Consisting of Descriptions of the by Charles Upham Shepard (1835)
"... fergusonite. Secondary form. Fig. 196. a on s - 100° 30' | zom' - 159° Cleavage,
traces parallel to *. ..."
3. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1850)
"fergusonite.—6(YO; CeO; ThO), TaO'. Crystalline system, the square prismatic.
Specific gravity from 5'8 to 5'86. Brownish black; translucent in thin ..."
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