Relating to gadoline or gadolinium compounds, particularly in chemistry and mineralogy.
From gadolinium plus -ine (an adjective suffix commonly used in chemistry), creating a variant form of gadinic with slightly different application or historical usage.
The existence of both 'gadinine' and 'gadinic' shows how chemistry evolved its terminology—older texts use 'gadinine' while modern chemistry favors 'gadinic,' illustrating how scientific language standardizes and sometimes settles on preferred forms.
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