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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rare basic carbonate of lanthanum, occurring in thin tabular crystals of a white or nearly white color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Hydrous carbonate of lanthanum, found in tabular white crystals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
radioactive mineral , acarbonate of therare earth elementslanthanum ,cerium , andneodymium .
Etymologies
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lanthanum + -ite
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