On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Monazite. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as mineral and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Monazite in a sentence
Monazite meaning
any of a range of reddish-brown minerals that are mixed phosphates of the lighter rare earth elements lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium and yttrium
Synonyms of Monazite
Using Monazite
- The main meaning on this page is: any of a range of reddish-brown minerals that are mixed phosphates of the lighter rare earth elements lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium and yttrium
- Useful related words include: mineral.
- In the example corpus, monazite often appears in combinations such as: of monazite, monazite supply, and monazite.
Context around Monazite
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Monazite
- In this selection, "monazite" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, zircon, exploiting, cent, supply, pyrochlore and crystals stand out and add context to how "monazite" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include sources of monazite supply to and and production monazite found with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "monazite" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with monazite
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This can be observed with monazite-containing sands or bastnäsite-containing ore. (12 words)
The elements identified included allanite, ceriate, thorite, columbite, tantalite, apatite, zircon, monazite, pyrochlore euxenite and fluorite. (16 words)
Monazite sands usually contain all the lanthanide elements, but the heavier elements are lacking in bastnäsite. (16 words)
At the same time, we continue to move our Bahia Rare Earth Project in forward toward production and secure additional sources of monazite supply to process at the Mill for rare earth production, while advancing discussions with end-users. (39 words)
At the same time, we continue to move our Bahia Rare Earth Project in forward toward production and to secure additional sources of monazite supply to process at the Mill for rare earth production. (34 words)
In an earlier amendment to these rules in 2016, the Centre had fixed a maximum concentration of 0.75 per cent monazite in the beach sands, exceeding which, private miners were disallowed from mining. (34 words)
Example sentences (14)
At the same time, we continue to move our Bahia Rare Earth Project in forward toward production and secure additional sources of monazite supply to process at the Mill for rare earth production, while advancing discussions with end-users.
At the same time, we continue to move our Bahia Rare Earth Project in forward toward production and to secure additional sources of monazite supply to process at the Mill for rare earth production.
The elements identified included allanite, ceriate, thorite, columbite, tantalite, apatite, zircon, monazite, pyrochlore euxenite and fluorite.
Based on measurements of 39 zircon and monazite crystals, Dr. Erickson and his team calculated that the Yarrabubba impact occurred 2.229 billion years ago, with an uncertainty of 5 million years.
Medallion Resources has developed a proprietary process and related business model to achieve low-cost, near-term, rare-earth element (REE) production by exploiting monazite.
In an earlier amendment to these rules in 2016, the Centre had fixed a maximum concentration of 0.75 per cent monazite in the beach sands, exceeding which, private miners were disallowed from mining.
Bastnäsite tends to show less of a negative europium anomaly than does monazite, and hence is the major source of europium today.
Greenwood and Earnshaw, p. 1255 Monazite is a chemically unreactive phosphate mineral that is found as yellow or brown sand; its low reactivity makes it difficult to extract thorium from it.
Greenwood and Earnshaw, p. 1426–9 The procedure for monazite, which usually contains all the rare earths as well as thorium, is more involved.
Monazite sands usually contain all the lanthanide elements, but the heavier elements are lacking in bastnäsite.
Occurrence and production Monazite Found with almost all other rare-earth metals but never by itself, lutetium is very difficult to separate from other elements.
Small amounts of terbium occur in bastnäsite and monazite; when these are processed by solvent extraction to recover the valuable heavy lanthanides as samarium europium gadolinium concentrate, terbium is recovered therein.
This can be observed with monazite-containing sands or bastnäsite-containing ore.
This ion-exchange process is the basis of the "negative europium anomaly", the low europium content in many lanthanide minerals such as monazite, relative to the chondritic abundance.
Common combinations with monazite
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of monazite 2×
- monazite supply 2×
- and monazite 2×