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incompatible elements
Elements that are not incorporated into common rock-forming minerals during magma crystallization, hence they become enriched in the residual magma and in the rocks finally formed from it. Examples are: potassium, rubidium, strontium, hafnium, thorium, uranium, and lanthanum, samarium, europium, and the rest of the rare earth elements (REE).
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Astronomy
- Category: Planetary science
- Company: PSRD
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