Europium and vanadium in mineral? A lot of work here (6)
I believe the answer is:
oeuvre
'a lot of work here' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how they can define each other.
'europium and vanadium in mineral?' is the wordplay.
'europium' becomes 'Eu' (Eu is the chemical symbol for europium).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'vanadium' becomes 'V' (V is the chemical symbol for vanadium).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'mineral?' becomes 'ore' (ore is a kind of mineral).
'eu'+'v'='euv'
'euv' inserted inside 'ore' is 'OEUVRE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for oeuvre that I've seen before include "Artist's total output" , "Substantial body of work from our Eve" , "Complete output of a writer or artist" , "All one's writings" , "Complete works (Fr.)" .)