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thortveitite

/ˈθɔːrt.vaɪ.taɪt/

Traducción: Mineral compuesto de silicato de escandio e itrio, que constituye una fuente del elemento escandio.

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formalcommonscientific/ˈθɔːrt.vaɪ.taɪt/

A mineral composed of scandium yttrium silicate, which serves as a source of the element scandium.

  • 🇪🇸Mineral compuesto de silicato de escandio e itrio, que constituye una fuente del elemento escandio.
  1. Scandium yttrium silicate mineral C2 formal scientific

    A rare mineral composed of scandium, yttrium, and silicon, primarily known as a source of scandium.

    • Thortveitite is one of the few minerals that contains scandium in significant amounts.
    • Geologists discovered a small deposit of thortveitite in the remote mountains.
    • The extraction of scandium from thortveitite is a complex and costly process.

    🇪🇸tortveitita