MONAZITE

mŏnˈəzīt, yellow to reddish-brown natural phosphate of the rare earths, mainly the cerium and lanthanum metals, usually with some thorium. Yttrium, calcium, iron, and silica are frequently present. Monazite sand is the crude natural material and is usually purified from other minerals before entering commerce. Monazite occurs in North Carolina, South Carolina, Idaho, Colorado, Montana, and Florida in the United States, and in Brazil, India, Australia, and South Africa. It is an important source of cerium, thorium, and other rare-earth metals and compounds.

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books on: Monazite  - 106 results

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The History and Use of Our Earth's Chemical Elements: A Reference Guide
Book by Robert E.Krebs; Greenwood Press, 1998
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Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947-1964
Book by Andrew J. Rotter; Cornell University Press, 2000
Subjects: India--Foreign Public Opinion, American, India--Foreign Relations--United States, Public Opinion--India--History--20th Century, Public Opinion--United States--History--20th Century, United States--Foreign Public Opinion, East Indian, United States--Foreign Relations--India
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Economic Consequences of Divided India: A Study of the Economy of India and Pakistan
Book by C. N. Vakil; Vora, 1950
Subjects: India--Economic Conditions--1945-, Pakistan--Economic Conditions
...Ore. XIII. Fullers Earth. XlV. Mica. XV. Gold. XVI. Strategic Minerals:--Beryl--Monazite--Zircon. XVII. Other Minerals:--Titanium -- Magnesite -- Steatite -- Vanadium --Silica...
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Bread and the Ballot: The United States and India's Economic Development, 1947-1963
Book by Dennis Merrill; University of North Carolina Press, 1990
Subjects: Economic Assistance, American--India, India--Foreign Economic Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Economic Relations--India
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The Economic Development of Ceylon
Book by International Bank For Reconstruction And Development; Johns Hopkins Press, 1953
...are substantial but badly scattered. Promising ilmenite and monazite sands are as yet unutilized. The only minerals of commercial...graphite, and new market studies should be made of thorianite, monazite and flaked or ground mica. Other mineral developments may...
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Finding an Alliance: Rethinking Argentine-United States Cold War Relations
Journal article by David Sheinin; MACLAS Latin American Essays, Vol. 16, 2002
Subjects: Alfonsin, Raul, Argentina--International relations, Eisenhower, Milton S., Frondizi, Arturo, Kennedy, John F., Menem, Carlos Saul, Ongania, Juan Carlos, Peron, Eva, Puig, Manuel, United States--International relations, Videla, Jorge Rafael
...committed Brazil to supply the United States over a three-year period with 3,000-5,000 tons of monazite, a mineral containing uranium. There was a second monazite agreement signed in 1952 and in late 1956 Brazilian scientists achieved the first nuclear...
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Science, Society, and the Japanese Tomic-Bomb Project During World War Two
Journal article by J. W. Dower; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 10, 1978
Subjects: Asia
...discovered turned out to have a uranium content of less than one-tenth of one percent. In early 1945, plans were made to ship monazite (which contains thorium) from China to Japan, but the Chinese deposits were in areas where the anti-Japanese resistance...


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magazine articles on: Monazite  - 2 results

 
 
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Understanding Keralam: The Tragedy of Radical Scholarship
Magazine article by K.T. Ram Mohan; Monthly Review, Vol. 43, December 1991
Subjects: Capitalism--India, Communist Party (Marxist) (India)--Influence, Kerala, India--Economic policy, Land reform--India, Socialism--India
...subsidiaries, pan-Indian capitalists, and the central government. The state has the largest and best deposit of monazite in the country. But monazite processing is an exclusive monopoly of the government of India. Because of this, the central governmental...
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In the Middle of a Chain Reaction
Magazine article by Nick Middleton; Geographical, Vol. 72, December 2000
Subjects: Chernobyl, Ukraine--Accidents, Energy industry--Management, Nuclear industry--Management, Nuclear reactors--Accidents, Power plants--Ukraine, Radioactive fallout--Health aspects, Radioactivity--Environmental aspects
...radioactive hotspots back down on terra firma. For example, areas of Brazil, India and China, rich in a rare earth mineral called monazite -- which contains thorium, uranium and radium -- can have background radiation levels hundreds or even thousands of times higher...


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Nuclear Workers Eligible for Payments
Newspaper article by Tom Ramstack; The Washington Times, August 8, 2001
...predecessor, entered into a contract with the Atomic Energy Commission to extract thorium and rare earths from naturally occurring monazite sands. In 1956, the Atomic Energy Commission contract and Rare Earths license to possess, transfer and use radioactive thorium...


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encyclopedia articles on: Monazite  - 16 results

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Monazite
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MONAZITE mon zit, yellow to reddish-brown natural phosphate...Yttrium, calcium, iron, and silica are frequently present. Monazite sand is the crude natural material and is usually purified from other minerals before entering commerce. Monazite occurs in North Carolina, South Carolina, Idaho, Colorado...
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Nagercoil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...a district administrative center, with industries in motor repair, rubber goods, and rice- and cotton-milling. Ilmenite and monazite are mined. It is an important Christian center in the primarily Hindu country of India. ____________________ Copyright 2009...
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Samarium
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...above 150 degrees Celsius. Samarium is found widely distributed in nature; it is obtained commercially from the minerals monazite and bastnasite. Naturally occurring samarium is a mixture of seven isotopes, three of which are radioactive with extremely...
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Ytterbium
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ytterbia, Yb 2 O 3 ) is colorless. It is widely distributed in a number of minerals, e.g., gadolinite, and is recovered from monazite but has no commercial uses. Its discovery is credited to J. C. G. de Marignac, who in 1878 separated a substance he called...
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Holmium
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...moist air or when heated. Holmia, the oxide, is found in nature, with other rare earths , in the minerals gadolinite and monazite. Holmium, its oxide, and its salts have no commercial uses. The metal was discovered spectroscopically in 1878 by the Swiss...
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