单词 | polycrase |
释义 | polycrasen. Mineralogy. A mineral (belonging to the orthorhombic crystal system but usually metamict) that consists of an oxide of titanium, niobium, tantalum, uranium, yttrium, and other elements, and occurs as short, prismatic, black crystals.In 1988 ( Mineral. Mag. 52 292/2) the official name was altered to polycrase-(Y). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > oxides of titanium, tantalum, nickel, or rare earths > polycrase polycrase1845 1845 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 40 394 Polycrase is near polymignite. 1892 E. S. Dana J. D. Dana's Syst. Mineral. (ed. 6) 745 Scandium is prominent in the spectrum of the American polycrase. 1944 C. Palache et al. Dana's Syst. Mineral. (ed. 7) I. 790 Euxenite and polycrase are known from a hundred or more localities in Norway alone. 1974 Science 3 May 561/1 It is not uncommon that museum specimens of aeschynite..are found to have a polycrase composition. 1993 European Jrnl. Mineral. 5 1161/2 Three small crystals, morphologically identical to polycrase-(Y), showed a remarkably high uranium content. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1845 |
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