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osbornite Min.|ˈɒzbɔənaɪt|
[f. the name of George Osborn-e (see quot. 1870) + -ite1.]
Titanium nitride, TiN, found as small yellow octahedra in oldhamite in the meteorite which fell at Bustee, India.
1870N. S. Maskelyne in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. CLX. 198 This microscopic mineral I wish to name Osbornite in honour of Mr. Osborne, and in order to commemorate the important service that gentleman rendered to science in preserving and transmitting to London in its entirety the stone which his zeal saved at the time of its fall, and in recording all he could collect about the circumstances associated with that fall. 1941Mineral. Mag. XXVI. 36 The minute octahedra of osbornite are easily visible with a lens in the meteorite itself. 1962B. Mason Meteorites x. 156 The only nitrogen mineral recorded from meteorites is osbornite, TiN, a rare accessory known only from Bustee (an enstatite achondrite). |