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Fergusonite

Definition: Fergusonite

Fergusonite

Noun

1. A dark mineral consisting of oxides of yttrium and erbium and tantalum and other minerals.

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Specialty Definitions: Fergusonite

DomainDefinitions

Mining

Monoclinic (beta) and orthorhombic minerals (Ce,Nd,La,Y)NbO4 , further speciated according to the predominant rare-earth element; dull to vitreous brownish black; in pegmatites associated with euxenite, monazite, gadolinite, and other rare-earth minerals in North Carolina, SouthCarolina, Virginia, Texas, Norway, Sweden, and Africa. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Fergusonite

English words defined with "fergusonite": atomic number 73Ta, tantalum. (references)
Specialty definitions using "fergusonite": typrite. (references)

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Rhyming with "Fergusonite"

Words rhyming with "fergusonite" (pronounced 'Fer"gu*son*ite'): Abderite, Abietite, Accite, Aciculite, Aconite, Acquisite, Acrite, Adamite, Adiaphorite, Aerolite, Aerosiderite, Agalmatolite, Albertite, Albite, Allanite, Allochroite, Alunite, Ambrite, Ammite, Ammonite, Ampelite, Analcite, Andalusite, Andesite, Anglesite, Anhydrite, Ankerite, Anorthite, Anorthosite, Antholite, Anthophyllite, Anthraconite, Anthropolite, Anthropomorphite, Anthropopathite, Anthropophagite, Antimonite, Apatite, Aphanite, Aphrite, Apophyllite, Apotactite, Appetite, Apposite, Aragonite, Archimandrite, Arenicolite, Areopagite, Argentite, Argillite. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Fergusonite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-f-g-i-n-o-r-s-t-u"

-2 letters: festering, firestone, foresting, fostering, fourteens, genitures, interfuse, outseeing, stereoing.

-3 letters: egestion, eringoes, estrogen, esurient, eugenist, feigners, ferniest, foreguts, fortunes, fourteen, frosting, generous, genitors, geniture, gentries, gunfires, infester, integers, oneriest, outfires, outgrins, outrings, reesting, refusing, refuting, reinfuse, retinues, reunites, rousting, routines, seigneur, serotine, snoutier, softener, steering, sturgeon, tourings.

-4 letters: entires, entries, eringos, estrone, feigner.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-f-g-i-n-o-r-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: argentiferous, garnetiferous.

 

+4 letters: fortunetellings.

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Alternative Orthography: Fergusonite


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 65 72 67 75 73 6F 6E 69 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .    .-.    --.    ..-    ...    ---    -.    ..    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100101 01110010 01100111 01110101 01110011 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#101 &#114 &#103 &#117 &#115 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0065 0072 0067 0075 0073 006F 006E 0069 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4071847387858180758671

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1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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