POLLUCITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pollucite mean? 

• POLLUCITE (noun)
  The noun POLLUCITE has 1 sense:

1. a rare mineral that is an important source of cesium

  Familiarity information: POLLUCITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLLUCITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rare mineral that is an important source of cesium

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("pollucite" is a kind of...):

mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)

Meronyms (substance of "pollucite"):

atomic number 55; caesium; cesium; Cs (a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal)

atomic number 37; Rb; rubidium (a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group; burns in air and reacts violently in water; occurs in carnallite and lepidolite and pollucite)