单词 | xenotime |
释义 | xenotimen. Mineralogy. A native phosphate of yttrium. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > phosphates > [noun] > rare earth phosphates turnerite1823 monazite1836 xenotime1844 cryptolite1846 churchite1865 urdite1868 rhabdophane1878 scovillite1883 rhabdophanite1892 florencite1899 1844 J. D. Dana Min. (1868) 528 Xenotime... Lustre resinous Color yellowish-brown, reddish-brown, hair-brown, flesh-red, grayish-white [etc.]... Beudant named the species xenotime (apparently from ξενός, stranger to, and τιμή, honor), but in the next line gives the derivation ‘κενος, vain, et τιμή, honneur’, as if the word were kenotime, and adds..that this name is intended to recall the fact that the mineral was erroneously supposed by Berzelius..to contain a new metal. 1907 Athenæum 20 Apr. 479/1 M. Jean Becquerel..has been engaged in magneto-optical researches... Most of his experiments have been made with crystals of xenotime (a magnetic phosphate of yttrium). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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