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Ilmenite
Il′men-ite
,Noun.
[So called from
Ilmen
, a branch of the Ural Mountains.] (Min.)
Titanic iron. See
Menaccanite
. Definition 2024
Ilmenite
ilmenite
ilmenite
English
Noun
ilmenite (countable and uncountable, plural ilmenites)
- (mineralogy) A weakly magnetic dark gray mineral found in metamorphic and igneous rocks; it is a mixed oxide of iron and titanium, FeTiO3
Synonyms
Translations
a weakly magnetic dark gray mineral
- ↑ James D. Dana: Dana's System of Mineralogy. Volume I, seventh edition, revised by Charles Palache, Harry Berman, and Clifford Frondel. John Wiley & Sons, 1944
- ↑ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997