Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mineral of a brownish-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, also massive, in Greenland.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Min.) A mineral of a brownish red color and vitreous luster, consisting chiefly of the silicates of iron, zirconia, and lime.

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  • noun mineralogy A red silicate mineral that forms in alkaline igneous rocks such as nepheline syenites.

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek εὖ διάλυτος (eu dialytos, "well decomposable") (alluding to its ready solubility in acid).

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Examples

  • The Red Wine complex has a considerable amount of the mineral eudialyte , which is known around the world to be a potential source of heavy rare earth elements.

    Expert Addresses Rare Earth Element Supply Hysteria - Seeking Alpha 2010

  • The placer gravels contain abundant chevkinite, eudialyte, ilmenite, monazite, tscheffkinite, and zircon and minor to trace allanite, cassiterite and thorite.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2009

  • Pink eudialyte and thorite occur as disseminations and blebs in the dyke.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2009

  • The prospect consists of thin uranium and thorium-enriched veins in a eudialyte-bearing, hornblende diorite dyke that intrudes into the contact zone between the Windy Fork Complex and Dillinger clastic rocks.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2009

  • Beginning with the upper-syenite through to the basal portion dominated by calc-alkaline rocks, we firstly encounter a zone dominated by eudialyte (a mineral that contains up to 10% rare earth oxides

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

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