Samarskite Sentence Examples

The rare earth metals are found in the minerals gadolinite, samarskite, fergusonite, euxenite and cerite.

It is usually found associated with tantalum, the chief minerals containing these two elements being tantalite, columbite, fergusonite and yttrotantalite; it is also a constituent of pyrochlor, euxenite and samarskite.

Throughout his life he paid great attention to the "rare earths" and the problem of separating and distinguishing them; in 1878 he extracted ytterbia from what was supposed to be pure erbia, and two years later found gadolinia and samaria in the samarskite earths.

It is found in the minerals gadolinite, cerite, samarskite and fergusonite, and is usually obtained from cerite.