monazite

How To Use monazite In A Sentence

• The main source of titanium in the country are beach sands that contain monazite and ilmenite. Nalco Plans Titanium Joint Venture
• The Atomic Energy Commission is concerned mainly with fundamental research work at the universities and in the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay and with problems associated with the discovery of uranium and the processing of thorium from the huge monazite sand deposits of southern India. Atom and Empire
• The most common ores of holmium are monazite and gadolinite.
• I dutifully explained that the smoky spots were probably the result of natural irradiation caused by many tiny radioactive mineral grains, possibly monazite or xenotime.
• Textures of kyanite, xenotime and monazite, and some staurolite and biotite, indicate that peak metamorphic mineral growth occurred after D 2 deformation.
• It is found with other rare earth elements in minerals such as monazite, cerite, gadolinite, xenotime, and euxenite.
• They are found in minerals such as monazite and bastnasite, the main sources of which are in China and the USA.
• Monazite clusters occur in a variety of host minerals, including cordierite, quartz, biotite and andalusite.
• The apparent critical temperature between 560 to 600°C for monazite growth at Ballachulish is broadly consistent with several previous studies of monazite in prograde metamorphic sequences.
• Petrographical evidence establishes that peak thermal metamorphism produced largely random growth of kyanite, staurolite, biotite, monazite and xenotime that overprinted those fabrics.