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• mineral — Synonyms and related words: alabaster, alabastrine, amphibole, antimony, apatite, aplite, arsenic, asbestine, asbestos, asphalt, azurite, bauxite, bitumen, boron, brimstone, bromine, brucite, calcite, carbon, celestite, chalcedony, chlorite,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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• metamict — 1. adjective Having a disrupted lattice due to radiation damage. 2. noun A mineral with a disrupted lattice due to radiation damage. See Also …   Wiktionary

• metamict — ˈmed.əˌmikt adjective Etymology: meta + Greek miktos mixed, compounded, verbal of mignynai, meignynai to mix more at mix of a mineral : amorphous because of the disruption of the crystal structure by radiation from contained or nearby radioactive …   Useful english dictionary

• Metamictization — (sometimes called metamiction) is a natural process resulting in the gradual and ultimately complete destruction of a mineral s crystal structure, leaving the mineral amorphous. Affected material is therefore described as metamict. Certain… …   Wikipedia

• radiation-damage dating — ▪ paleontology       method of age determination that makes use of the damage to crystals and the radiation from radioactive substances caused by storage of energy in electron traps. In the mineral zircon, for example, radiation damage results in …   Universalium

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• Pyrochlore — Infobox mineral name = Pyrochlore category = Oxide mineral boxwidth = boxbgcolor = caption = formula = (Na,Ca)2Nb2O6(OH,F) molweight = color = Brown, yellow brown, reddish brown, orange, black habit = disseminated granular subhedral system =… …   Wikipedia