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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rare fluorid of the cerium metals, occurring in hexagonal crystals and massive, of a wax-yellow color: found in Colorado.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A fluoride of the cerium metals occurring in hexagonal crystals of a pale yellow color. Cf.
fluocerite .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
fluoride of thecerium metals occurring in pale yellowhexagonal crystals .
Etymologies
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Tyson + -ite, after S. T. Tyson.
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