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tantalite

[ tan-tl-ahyt ]

noun

  1. a black, crystalline mineral, iron tantalate, (Fe, Mn) Ta 2 O 6 , the principal ore of tantalum and an end member of a series of solid solutions in which manganese and niobium combine to form columbite.


tantalite

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noun

  1. a heavy brownish mineral consisting of a tantalum oxide of iron and manganese in orthorhombic crystalline form: it occurs in coarse granite, often with columbite, and is an ore of tantalum. Formula: (Fe,Mn)(Ta,Nb) 2 O 6
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of tantalite1

First recorded in 1795–1805; tantal(um) + -ite 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of tantalite1

C19: from tantalum + -ite 1
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo has abundant reserves of diamonds, gold, coltan, copper, tantalite, wolframite, manganese and uranium.

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Apple wants to build more iPhones so someone has to mine more tantalite to make the tantalum to make the capacitors that go into them.

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These elements occur in the minerals columbite and tantalite, and their compounds became known in the early part of the 19th century by the labours of C. Hatchett, A.G.

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It is a constituent of certain rare minerals, such as tantalite.

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They are probably present in the form of columbite, a niobate of iron and manganese; and tantalite, a tantalate of the same metals.

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