osborniten.
/ˈɒzbɔːnʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈɑzbɔrˌnaɪt/, /ˈɑzbərˌnaɪt/ Mineralogy.
A rare mineral of the cubic system which consists of titanium nitride, TiN, and occurs as small brassy-yellow octahedra in some stony meteorites.Osbornite was identified in a meteorite which fell at Basti, Oudh, India, on 2 December 1852.
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1870 N. Story-Maskelyne in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 160 198 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.
1941 Mineral. Mag. 26 36 The minute octahedra of osbornite are easily visible with a lens in the meteorite itself.
1962 B. Mason Meteorites x. 156 The only nitrogen mineral recorded from meteorites is osbornite, TiN, a rare accessory known only from Bustee (an enstatite achondrite).
2000 Amer. Mineralogist 85 1082 Florenskyite is only the fourth phosphide to be described from nature. Its paragenesis may be unique, and may be due to melting of a mineral assemblage including Fe-Ni metal, schreibersite, daubreelite, osbornite, or heideite and subsequent crystallization of phosphides from the melt.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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