monazite

Noun

Meaning

A mineral occurring usually in small isolated crystals, -- a phosphate of the cerium metals.

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Based on measurements of 39 zircon and monazite crystals, Dr. Erickson and his team calculated that the Yarrabubba impact occurred 2.229 billion years ago, with an uncertainty of 5 million years. Source: Internet

Bastnäsite tends to show less of a negative europium anomaly than does monazite, and hence is the major source of europium today. Source: Internet

Greenwood and Earnshaw, p. 1426–9 The procedure for monazite, which usually contains all the rare earths as well as thorium, is more involved. Source: Internet

Small amounts of terbium occur in bastnäsite and monazite; when these are processed by solvent extraction to recover the valuable heavy lanthanides as samarium europium gadolinium concentrate, terbium is recovered therein. Source: Internet

Medallion Resources has developed a proprietary process and related business model to achieve low-cost, near-term, rare-earth element (REE) production by exploiting monazite. Source: Internet

This ion-exchange process is the basis of the "negative europium anomaly", the low europium content in many lanthanide minerals such as monazite, relative to the chondritic abundance. Source: Internet

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