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BADDELEYITE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does baddeleyite mean?
• BADDELEYITE (noun)
The noun BADDELEYITE has 1 sense:
1. a mineral consisting of zirconium oxide
Familiarity information: BADDELEYITE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mineral consisting of zirconium oxide
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("baddeleyite" is a kind of...):
mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)
Meronyms (substance of "baddeleyite"):
atomic number 40; zirconium; Zr (a lustrous grey strong metallic element resembling titanium; it is used in nuclear reactors as a neutron absorber; it occurs in baddeleyite but is obtained chiefly from zircon)
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