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Xenotime

Xen′o-time

,

Noun.

[Gr.

ξενότιμοσ

honoring guests or strangers;

ξένοσ

guest, stranger +

τιμή

honor: cf. G.

xenotim

.]

(Min.)

A native phosphate of yttrium occurring in yellowish-brown tetragonal crystals.