单词 | rutile |
释义 | rutilen. Mineralogy. A typically black or reddish-brown mineral consisting of titanium dioxide, occurring as needle-like crystals.Chemical formula: TiO2. Crystal system: tetragonal. The colour is mainly due to iron impurities; synthetic rutile is usually colourless. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > rutile and uranite groups A02 > rutile red schorl1794 titanite1796 nigrine1805 rutile1805 rutilite1805 ilmenorutile1861 1805 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. II. 495 Rutile... Its colour is dark blood-red, of various degrees of intensity. 1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xx. 295 The formation..contained cyanite, rutile, and garnets. 1888 F. Rutley Rock-forming Minerals 136 The crystals of rutile met with in rocks are usually of exceedingly small dimensions. 1951 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 568/2 Both the principal titanium minerals, ilmenite and rutile, are present in the black sands of streams and beaches in many parts of the world. 1965 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 17 Jan. 11 Rutile was also needed as a flux for electric welding rods, armaments, ship building, tanks, etc. 2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) xv. 467 Much titanium is extracted from Australian beach sands rich in rutile, a mineral that consists of almost pure titanium dioxide. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1818 H. M. Williams tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. III. xi. 417 Veins of quartz, containing..rutile titanite. 1888 F. Rutley Rock-forming Minerals 136 This grouping of rutile crystals may sometimes be found forming intergrowths with specular iron. 1929 G. P. Merrill Minerals from Earth & Sky ii. ii. 177 There is..a difference in the arrangement of the rutile needles in the Siamese and the Ceylonese rubies. 1988 F. A. Cotton & G. Wilkinson Adv. Inorg. Chem. (ed. 5) i. 7 The rutile structure..is very common among oxides and fluorides of the MF2 and MO2 types. 1998 Review (Rio Tinto plc) June 4/1 Synthetic rutile production results in iron oxide wastes which..have to be disposed of. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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