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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of trilobites belonging to the family Olenidæ and characterized by possessing 10 free segments and a small unsegmented pygidium. It occurs in the Lower Cambrian rooks.
- noun In chem., one of the rare earths, found with yttria in gadolinite, and supposed to be the oxid of a distinct element, holmium: but it may be an as yet unseparated mixture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) An oxide of holmium.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun inorganic chemistry holmium oxide
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