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Adj.

[After

Samarski

, a Russian.]

(Min.)

A rare mineral having a velvet-black color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals.

See also: samarskite

Samarskite m

See also: Samarskite

samarskite ‎(plural samarskites)

(mineralogy) A shiny black radioactive mineral that contains a complex mixture of rare earth oxides

↑ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997