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Webster 1913 Edition


Monazite

Mon′a-zite

(mŏn′ȧ-zīt)
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Noun.
[From Gr.
μονάζειν
to be solitary, in allusion to its isolated crystals.]
(Min.)
A mineral occurring usually in small isolated crystals, – a phosphate of the cerium metals.