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- noun mineralogy A
granular ,brittle oxide mineral of theperovskite class.
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Examples
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Its loparite concentrate holds light rare earths such as lanthanum and cerium.
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One client now dictates prices for its hard-to-extract product, loparite, a rare greyish-black ore, used in limited quantities to make metal alloys.
Guardian Online 2010
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