Definition & Meaning | English word BADDELEYITE
BADDELEYITE
Definitions of BADDELEYITE
- (mineral) A rare zirconium oxide mineral occurring in a variety of monoclinic prismatic crystal forms.
Number of letters
11
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using BADDELEYITE in a Sentence
- Besides zircon, zirconium occurs in over 140 other minerals, including baddeleyite and eudialyte; most zirconium is produced as a byproduct of minerals mined for titanium and tin.
- This is because, when silica is free in the system (silica-saturated/oversaturated), zircon is the dominating phase, not baddeleyite.
- Minerals associated with chaoite include: graphite, zircon, rutile, pseudobrookite, magnetite, nickeliferous pyrrhotite and baddeleyite.
- It occurs associated with ilmenite, titaniferous magnetite, titanite, anatase, perovskite, baddeleyite, phlogopite, clinochlore and kassite.
- It occurs as interstitial grains with zirconolite, baddeleyite, and apatite associated with late stage intergrowths of quartz and feldspar.
- Here, with Dunstan, thorianite from Ceylon was described as a new mineral and he published papers on baddeleyite and zirkelite from Ceylon and carnotite from South Australia.
- Due to chemical properties of the two elements, namely their valences and ionic radii, Lu is usually found in trace amount in rare-earth element loving minerals, such as garnet and phosphates, while Hf is usually found in trace amount in zirconium-rich minerals, such as zircon, baddeleyite and zirkelite.
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