Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A lustrous, blackish-brown rare-earth mineral consisting primarily of cerium, erbium, titanium, uranium, and yttrium.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A brownish-black mineral with a submetallic luster, found in Norway, which contains the metals yttrium, niobium (columbium), titanium, uranium, and some others.
Wiktionary
- n. mineralogy A dark brown lustrous mineral that is a mixed oxide of cerium, erbium, titanium, uranium, yttrium and other more common metals, with the chemical formula (Y,Ca,Ce,U,Th)(Nb,Ta,Ti)2O6.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) A brownish black mineral with a metallic luster, found in Norway. It contains niobium, titanium, yttrium, and uranium, with some other metals.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek εὔξενος (euksenos, "friendly to strangers, hospitable"). (Wiktionary)
- From Greek euxenos, kind to strangers (from its unusual composition) : eu-, eu- + xenos, stranger; see ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In 1879 a Swedish chemist named Lars Fredrik Nilson was looking for rare earth elements in the minerals euxenite and gadolinite when he discovered erbium and ytterbium; scandium was later separated from the ytterbium.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘euxenite’.
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
galkhaite, xanthoconite, pyrostilpnite, polybasite, pyrargyrite, djurleite, digenite, covellite, chalcocite, cerargirite, acanthite, aeschynite and 2608 more...
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gadolinium, Ying Huhai, taciturn, atomic number 39, yttrium, contingent, loose, euxenite, humble, Steve Biko, adventitious, acyclic and 8 more...
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Stranger's Words XENO-tropes
hostile, hospitable words (many based upon the IE root (g)hosti-) and reactions to the stranger and other words about the qualities of the strange (unfamiliar).
guest, gastarbeiter, host, hostile, hospice, hospitable, hospital, hospitality, hostage, hostel, hostler, xenia and 14 more...
Tweets
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mollusque A xenodochial mineral! Mar 8, 2009
fbharjo how does this word exhibit "kindness to strangers"? In what vein is it meant? It contains so much that is rare earth, perhaps Mar 8, 2009