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A rare metallic element of uncertain properties and identity, said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite.

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  1. n. A rare metallic element of uncertain properties and identity, said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite.
  2. n. a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group; isotope 170 emits X-rays and is used in small portable X-ray machines; it occurs in monazite and apatite and xenotime
  3. A rare metallic element of uncertain properties and identity, said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite.
  4. A rare metallic element of uncertain properties and identity,said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite.
  5. n. a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group; isotope 170 emits X-rays and is used in small portable X-ray machines; it occurs in monazite and apatite and xenotime