brookite
English
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Brookite
Etymology
From Brooke + -ite, named in 1825 for English crystallographer Henry James Brooke.
Noun
brookite (countable and uncountable, plural brookites)
- (mineralogy) A dark brown mineral form of titanium dioxide, with the chemical formula TiO2.
Translations
mineral
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Further reading
- “Brookite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
- “brookite”, in Mindat.org, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.
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