What does "agardite" mean?

Any of a group of copper arsenate minerals that contain varying proportions of several rare earth elements such as cerium, neodymium, lanthanum and yttrium.

Agardite

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Noun

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Any of a group of copper arsenate minerals that contain varying proportions of several rare earth elements such as cerium, neodymium, lanthanum and yttrium. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Agard + -ite, after French geologist Jules Agard.

Related phrases

rare earth element

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