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Definition of Ilmenite

1. Noun. A weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphic and plutonic rocks; an iron titanium oxide in crystalline form; a source of titanium.

Definition of Ilmenite

1. n. Titanic iron. See Menaccanite.

Definition of Ilmenite

1. Noun. (minerology) A weakly magnetic dark gray mineral found in metamorphic and igneous rocks; it is a mixed oxide of iron and titanium, FeTiO₃ ¹

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Definition of Ilmenite

1. a mineral [n -S]

Medical Definition of Ilmenite

1. Titanic iron. See Menaccanite. Origin: So called from Ilmen, a branch of the Ural Mountains. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ilmenite

Literary usage of Ilmenite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Metamorphism by Charles Richard Van Hise (1904)
"ilmenite. occurrence.—ilmenite is an abundant pyrogenic constituent of the ... The decrease in volume of the ilmenite, calcite, and quartz in passing into ..."

2. The Deposits of the Useful Minerals & Rocks: Their Origin, Form, and Content by Franz Heinrich August Beyschlag, Johan Herman Lie Vogt (1914)
"Such ores or rocks which are comparable to other basic segregations, are termed titanomagnetite-gabbro or -norite, or ilmenite-gabbro or -norite if some ..."

3. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"Aluminium and magnesium are generally present in excess of that which enters the silicate minerals, and form spinel and magnesium magnetite and ilmenite. ..."

4. Mineral Resources of Virginia by Thomas Leonard Watson, Ray Smith Bassler, Heinrich Ries, Roy Jay Holden, Virginia Jamestown Exposition Commission (1907)
"For location of the Nelson county ilmenite deposit, see map. figure 38. The mineral ilmenite though abundant and cheap has as yet proved of little economic ..."

5. Rock Minerals: Their Chemical and Physical Characters and Their by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1911)
"In rocks ilmenite commonly alters to a whitish, yellowish, ... ilmenite alters to carbonate with the separation of rutile that may have been present as ..."

6. Mineral Resources of Virginia by Thomas Leonard Watson, Ray Smith Bassler, Heinrich Ries, Roy Jay Holden (1907)
"For location of the Nelson county ilmenite deposit, see map, figure 38. The mineral ilmenite though abundant and cheap has as yet proved of little economic ..."

7. Petrographic Methods: The Authorized English Translation of Part I by Ernst Weinschenk, Robert Watson Clark (1912)
"ilmenite ilmenite [(Fe,Ti),02] is more frequently found in crystals than compact. ... ilmenite may finally be entirely replaced by leucoxene. ..."

8. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1905)
"ilmenite crystallizes in the rhombohedron division of the hexagonal system, but it is more ... Chemically, ilmenite is a double oxide of iron and titanium, ..."

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