Titanicn.

Brit.

/tʌɪˈtanɪk/, U.S.

/taɪˈtænɪk/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name RMS Titanic.

Etymology: < the name of RMS Titanic ( < titanic adj.¹), the largest ship in the world when it was built, and supposedly unsinkable.The Titanic sank on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg while on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic, resulting in the deaths of 1,513 of the 2,224 passengers and crew on board.

Something likened to the Titanic in being vast and supposedly indestructible yet heading inevitably towards disaster.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > that which is ordained by fate > adverse fate or doom > something fated to disaster

Titanic1912

1912 Life 16 May 1013/3 The political Titanic seems unsinkable, but isn't.

1970 Montana Standard 18 Feb. 7/3 Businessmen..are riding on the prow of an economic Titanic and don't know it.

1975 S. Lauder Killing Time on Corvo x. 91 It was some horrifying Titanic disaster.

1980 K. Hagenbach Fox Potential vi. 57 I wanted to leave England... I did not intend to be aboard when that particular Titanic finally foundered in a sea of bureaucracy.

2012 Evening Standard (Nexis) 8 May 15 Spain is the Titanic heading for the iceberg.

Phrases

Originally U.S. to rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic and variants: denoting pointless or futile activity in the face of disaster.

ΚΠ

1969 L. Carpenter in Washington Post 17 Jan. b10/1 All the new people want an office close to the President's. You should see them scramble—it's like fighting for a deck chair on the Titanic.

1973 Barron's National Business & Financial Weekly 10 Sept. 1/1 Brokerage firms are merging (which..someone has likened to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic).

1995 Methodist Recorder 3 Aug. 24/3 It was like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic while the ship went down.

2014 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. (Business section) 6/6 Premier said it had been ‘liberated from its past’ by the capital reorganisation but Questor believes it is more a case of moving the deckchairs on the Titanic.

Compounds

Titanic clause n. North American Law slang a clause specifying how the testator's estate should be disposed in the event that all primary and contingent beneficiaries die before probate.So called because the possibility of such a scenario entered the public consciousness as a result of the Titanic disaster.

ΚΠ

1915 N.Y. World 3 Aug. 5/4 When he executed his will on March 16, 1914, Joseph E. Greenfield inserted what is known as a ‘Titanic’ clause, which anticipated the possibility of the testator and his wife meeting death together in a catastrophe.

2017 Daily Cardinal (Univ. Wisconsin–Madison) (Nexis) 30 Jan. 1 Under the Titanic clause, you will name a final beneficiary to receive all of your assets in the event that none of your previous beneficiaries lives to collect them.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

titanicadj.¹

Brit.

/tʌɪˈtanɪk/, U.S.

/taɪˈtænɪk/

Forms: 1600s titanicke, 1600s titannick, 1600s tytanick, 1600s–1700s titanick, 1600s– titanic. Also with capital initial.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin Titanicus; Greek Τιτανικός.

Etymology: < (i) post-classical Latin Titanicus (1516 or earlier), or its etymon (ii) ancient Greek Τιτανικός of or for the Titans < Τιτᾶνες the Titans (see Titan n.¹) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare earlier titanical adj. Compare also earlier Titanian adj.¹With sense 1a compare Middle French, French titanique (1552; apparently rare between the early 17th and early 19th centuries). In sense 2 after Titan n.¹ 1.

a. Of or relating to the Titans (Titan n.¹ 2b); resembling or characteristic of the Titans, esp. in size or power; gigantic, colossal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > huge

unmeeteOE

unmeetlyOE

hugea1275

hideousc1330

infinitec1385

unmeasureda1398

unmeasurablec1405

hugyc1420

immeasurable1440

ingentc1450

unmeetlyc1450

giant1480

immense1490

monstrous?a1513

unmeasurely1513

hugeousa1529

unportable1537

enormous1544

enormc1560

giantly1561

immensible1579

rouncival1582

dismeasured1584

vast1585

immeasured1590

gargantuan1596

omnipotent1596

colossian1601

immane1601

prodigious1601

Polyphemian1602

Titanian1603

titanical1603

gigantical1604

immensive1604

gigantine1605

colossic1607

gigantean1611

Gogmagotical1612

gigantal?1614

Babylonian1617

leviathan1625

titanic1628

elephantine1631

gigantive1638

colossean1644

decumanal1652

immensurate1654

gigant1658

decuman1659

colossal1664

abnormous1710

Brobdingnagian1728

Brobdingnag1731

Pantagruelian1737

heroic1785

Patagonian1786

seven-league1787

Titan1793

gigantic1797

seven-leagued1799

mammoth1801

dimensionless1813

tremendous1813

gigantesque1821

monster1837

titanesque1838

monstre1840

giantlike1847

leviathanic1848

pythonic1851

Babylonic1853

supercolossal1871

giantesque1909

behemothian1910

supergiant1919

ginormous1942

big-ass1945

Ozymandian1961

fuck-off1962

mega1968

humongous1970

monstro1970

big-assed1972

big-arsed1996

1628 R. Knevet Στρατιοτικον sig. F3^v Titanicke pride, that God to his face dares.

1684 B. Lane Prerogative of Monarchs of Great Brittain 123 Against which [sc. Heavenly Justice]..to make a kind of a Titanic War, proves as fatal in the end as the Insurrection of those Gyants against Heav'n it self.

1709 J. Clarke tr. Origen in tr. Grotius Truth Christian Relig. (1711) v. ix. 224 (note) Some wicked Daemons and (as I may call them) Titanick [Gk. Τιτανικοὶ] or Gigantick ones who were rebellious against the True God.

1769 T. Rowe in A. Machay Pasquin I. Ded. 4 In a free-thinking free-acting age, shall titanic Faction lift its bold front unopposed against majesty?

1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV xlvi. 26 We pass The skeleton of her [sc. Rome's] Titanic form.

1852 M. Kelly tr. J. Lynch Cambrensis Eversus III. xxxi. 483 He has assailed heaven itself with titanic audacity.

1917 A. H. Verrill Bk. W. Indies vii. 73 Sky-piercing Diablotin which towers, sublime, massive, titanic, above all else.

1951 H. Brickell in O. Henry Prize Stories p. xvi Measured against the other two Nobel awards,..Mr. Faulkner's stature looms as nothing short of titanic.

2013 Cape Times (Nexis) 9 Oct. 26 Rafael Nadal yesterday revealed he's still in pain despite his titanic form since returning from injury.

b. Of a contest, struggle, or conflict: waged between powerful and evenly matched people, groups, or forces; epic. Cf. clash of the Titans at Titan n.¹ and adj. Phrases.

ΚΠ

1838 Hesperian May 19/2 What would have become of one of your prosers in the Johnsonian circle?..In their titanic struggles he would have been regarded as an ‘unconsidered trifle’.

1885 A. M. Gibson Polit. Crime i. 5 It was a titanic struggle. The thieves had millions stolen from the people.

1914 C. W. Domville-Fife Submarines, Mines & Torpedoes 10 The 1,500 surface warships engaged in this titanic struggle for the dominion of Europe.

1990 Atlantic May 57/2 The resulting contest is sure to be a titanic one.

2016 Sc. Sun (Nexis) 6 Aug. (Sport section) 8 It's likely to be a titanic battle between two of the country's biggest clubs for the automatic promotion place come the end of the season.

†2. With capital initial. Of or relating to the sun; solar. Cf. Titan n.¹ 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > sun > [adjective] > resembling

sun-like?1593

Titanian1602

titanic1656

soliform1678

solar1754

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Titanic,..of or belonging to the Sun.

1712 On Death of Mr. E. Smith 11 Th' Embosom'd Rose, in radiant Morn, Disclosing Blushes to the Beams Titanic.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

titanicadj.²

Brit.

/tʌɪˈtanɪk/,

/tᵻˈtanɪk/, U.S.

/taɪˈtænɪk/,

/təˈtænɪk/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: titanium n., -ic suffix.

Etymology: < titan- (in titanium n.) + -ic suffix. In sense 2 originally after French titanique (1823 in acide titanique : see titanic acid n. at Compounds).In titanic iron n. after Swedish titanjern (1814 in the passage translated in quot. 1814 at sense 1).

1. Mineralogy. Of a mineral, esp. iron ore: containing or yielding titanium. titanic iron n. (also titanic iron ore) = ilmenite n.

ΚΠ

1814 J. Black tr. J. J. Berzelius Attempt Sci. Syst. Mineral. 83 Subtitanias triferrosus—Titanic-iron [Sw. titanjern], compact magnetic iron-stone.

1868 F. H. Joynson Metals in Constr. 87 Bessemer metal containing phosphorus may be dephosphorised by employing titanic pig-iron, in repeated doses, to eliminate the phosphorus.

1870 Watchmaker & Jeweler Jan. 82/3 Siliceous titanic minerals, as sphene, do not give the reaction with borax.

1939 Jrnl. Compar. Legislation & Internat. Law 21 50 The Cabinet is authorized to pay annually,..to every owner of a deposit of titanic iron ore being worked in the Province of Quebec, a premium of 1 cent per unit of metallic iron contained in each ton of iron ore.

2006 Slavonic & East European Rev. 84 626 Numerous more technical and scientific terms either remain very obscure or have disappeared altogether from both the Russian and the Czech lexicon, including ‘ilimenit’ (titanic iron ore).

2. Chemistry. Containing titanium; spec. forming names of compounds or salts in which the element has an oxidation state of +4; of or relating to titanium in this oxidation state. Contrasted with titanous adj.Recorded earliest in titanic acid n. at Compounds.

ΚΠ

1823 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts Oct. 97 Mr. Rose treats of the peroxide of titanium, (called by him, properly enough, titanic acid,) and its combinations with the alkalis and acids.

1832 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts 22 270 Titanic sulphate. Sulphate of titanium.

1853 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. VIII. 148 The hydrocyanic acid must be passed in the form of gas into the titanic chloride.

1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Titanico-hydricus..applied by Berzelius to a titanic haloid salt..combined with the hydracid of the same halogenous body..: titanicohydric.

1923 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 45 2623 The preparation of titanous solutions..should not be much more difficult than the task of preparing the corresponding titanic solutions.

1955 J. C. Giblin Qualitative & Volumetric Anal. (ed. 2) iv. vii. 152 If the strength of the original titanic salt is known, each freshly reduced portion will have the same reduction value.

2011 Procedia Earth & Planetary Sci. 2 2 This process uses metal magnesium to reduce titanic chloride (TiCl₄) to titanium metal.

Compounds

titanic acid n. [after French acide titanique (1823 in a French translation of the paper summarized in quot. 1823), itself after Swedish titansyra (H. Rose 1821, in Kongliga Vetenskaps-Academiens handlingar 239)] †(a) titanium dioxide, TiO₂ (obsolete); (b) any of various (sometimes hypothetical) oxyacids containing titanium.

ΚΠ

1823 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts Oct. 97 Mr. Rose treats of the peroxide of titanium, (called by him, properly enough, titanic acid,) and its combinations with the alkalis and acids.

1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1241/1 The peroxide, or titanic acid, exists nearly pure in titanite, or rutilite.

1924 A. J. Allmand & H. J. T. Ellingham Princ. Appl. Electrochem. (ed. 2) xxi. 521 A pure alumina..is generally prepared by the Bayer process from bauxite, a hydrated oxide of iron and aluminium, containing some silica and titanic acid.

1934 Jrnl. Physical Chem. 38 513 Tetravalent titanium, like tin, is said to form two distinct acids: ortho- or alpha titanic acid and meta- or beta titanic acid.

1998 Industr. & Engin. Chem. Res. 37 3869 Sulfated titania catalysts were prepared by precipitation of titanic acid from titanium tetrachloride using aqueous ammonia, followed by impregnation with sulfuric acid.

titanic oxide n. titanium dioxide, TiO₂.

ΚΠ

1832 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts 22 256 Titanic oxide. Protoxide of titanium.

1927 Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 62 63 Though the silica is a little lower and the titanic oxide higher, this analysis agrees rather closely with the average analysis of the world's basalts.

2012 Lowell (Mass.) Sun (Nexis) 30 July Alumina oxide, titanic oxide and many other nanoparticles that are commonly used in industrial manufacturing are white, and are indiscernible from fine pastry flour by sight.

titanic schorl n. Mineralogy rare a typically black or reddish-brown mineral consisting of titanium dioxide, occurring as needle-like crystals; = rutile n.

ΚΠ

1885 S. Fallows Progressive Dict. Eng. Lang. at Schorl Red and titanic schorl, names of rutile.

2011 Computer Physics Communications 182 1598 The TiO₂ sample includes octahedrite (68.37%) and titanic schorl (31.63%).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.1912

adj.¹1628

adj.²1814

单词	titanic
释义	Titanicn. Brit. /tʌɪˈtanɪk/, U.S. /taɪˈtænɪk/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name RMS Titanic. Etymology: < the name of RMS Titanic ( < titanic adj.¹), the largest ship in the world when it was built, and supposedly unsinkable.The Titanic sank on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg while on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic, resulting in the deaths of 1,513 of the 2,224 passengers and crew on board. Something likened to the Titanic in being vast and supposedly indestructible yet heading inevitably towards disaster. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > that which is ordained by fate > adverse fate or doom > something fated to disaster Titanic1912 1912 Life 16 May 1013/3 The political Titanic seems unsinkable, but isn't. 1970 Montana Standard 18 Feb. 7/3 Businessmen..are riding on the prow of an economic Titanic and don't know it. 1975 S. Lauder Killing Time on Corvo x. 91 It was some horrifying Titanic disaster. 1980 K. Hagenbach Fox Potential vi. 57 I wanted to leave England... I did not intend to be aboard when that particular Titanic finally foundered in a sea of bureaucracy. 2012 Evening Standard (Nexis) 8 May 15 Spain is the Titanic heading for the iceberg. Phrases Originally U.S. to rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic and variants: denoting pointless or futile activity in the face of disaster. ΚΠ 1969 L. Carpenter in Washington Post 17 Jan. b10/1 All the new people want an office close to the President's. You should see them scramble—it's like fighting for a deck chair on the Titanic. 1973 Barron's National Business & Financial Weekly 10 Sept. 1/1 Brokerage firms are merging (which..someone has likened to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic). 1995 Methodist Recorder 3 Aug. 24/3 It was like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic while the ship went down. 2014 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. (Business section) 6/6 Premier said it had been ‘liberated from its past’ by the capital reorganisation but Questor believes it is more a case of moving the deckchairs on the Titanic. Compounds Titanic clause n. North American Law slang a clause specifying how the testator's estate should be disposed in the event that all primary and contingent beneficiaries die before probate.So called because the possibility of such a scenario entered the public consciousness as a result of the Titanic disaster. ΚΠ 1915 N.Y. World 3 Aug. 5/4 When he executed his will on March 16, 1914, Joseph E. Greenfield inserted what is known as a ‘Titanic’ clause, which anticipated the possibility of the testator and his wife meeting death together in a catastrophe. 2017 Daily Cardinal (Univ. Wisconsin–Madison) (Nexis) 30 Jan. 1 Under the Titanic clause, you will name a final beneficiary to receive all of your assets in the event that none of your previous beneficiaries lives to collect them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). titanicadj.¹ Brit. /tʌɪˈtanɪk/, U.S. /taɪˈtænɪk/ Forms: 1600s titanicke, 1600s titannick, 1600s tytanick, 1600s–1700s titanick, 1600s– titanic. Also with capital initial. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin Titanicus; Greek Τιτανικός. Etymology: < (i) post-classical Latin Titanicus (1516 or earlier), or its etymon (ii) ancient Greek Τιτανικός of or for the Titans < Τιτᾶνες the Titans (see Titan n.¹) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare earlier titanical adj. Compare also earlier Titanian adj.¹With sense 1a compare Middle French, French titanique (1552; apparently rare between the early 17th and early 19th centuries). In sense 2 after Titan n.¹ 1. 1. a. Of or relating to the Titans (Titan n.¹ 2b); resembling or characteristic of the Titans, esp. in size or power; gigantic, colossal. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > huge unmeeteOE unmeetlyOE hugea1275 hideousc1330 infinitec1385 unmeasureda1398 unmeasurablec1405 hugyc1420 immeasurable1440 ingentc1450 unmeetlyc1450 giant1480 immense1490 monstrous?a1513 unmeasurely1513 hugeousa1529 unportable1537 enormous1544 enormc1560 giantly1561 immensible1579 rouncival1582 dismeasured1584 vast1585 immeasured1590 gargantuan1596 omnipotent1596 colossian1601 immane1601 prodigious1601 Polyphemian1602 Titanian1603 titanical1603 gigantical1604 immensive1604 gigantine1605 colossic1607 gigantean1611 Gogmagotical1612 gigantal?1614 Babylonian1617 leviathan1625 titanic1628 elephantine1631 gigantive1638 colossean1644 decumanal1652 immensurate1654 gigant1658 decuman1659 colossal1664 abnormous1710 Brobdingnagian1728 Brobdingnag1731 Pantagruelian1737 heroic1785 Patagonian1786 seven-league1787 Titan1793 gigantic1797 seven-leagued1799 mammoth1801 dimensionless1813 tremendous1813 gigantesque1821 monster1837 titanesque1838 monstre1840 giantlike1847 leviathanic1848 pythonic1851 Babylonic1853 supercolossal1871 giantesque1909 behemothian1910 supergiant1919 ginormous1942 big-ass1945 Ozymandian1961 fuck-off1962 mega1968 humongous1970 monstro1970 big-assed1972 big-arsed1996 1628 R. Knevet Στρατιοτικον sig. F3^v Titanicke pride, that God to his face dares. 1684 B. Lane Prerogative of Monarchs of Great Brittain 123 Against which [sc. Heavenly Justice]..to make a kind of a Titanic War, proves as fatal in the end as the Insurrection of those Gyants against Heav'n it self. 1709 J. Clarke tr. Origen in tr. Grotius Truth Christian Relig. (1711) v. ix. 224 (note) Some wicked Daemons and (as I may call them) Titanick [Gk. Τιτανικοὶ] or Gigantick ones who were rebellious against the True God. 1769 T. Rowe in A. Machay Pasquin I. Ded. 4 In a free-thinking free-acting age, shall titanic Faction lift its bold front unopposed against majesty? 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV xlvi. 26 We pass The skeleton of her [sc. Rome's] Titanic form. 1852 M. Kelly tr. J. Lynch Cambrensis Eversus III. xxxi. 483 He has assailed heaven itself with titanic audacity. 1917 A. H. Verrill Bk. W. Indies vii. 73 Sky-piercing Diablotin which towers, sublime, massive, titanic, above all else. 1951 H. Brickell in O. Henry Prize Stories p. xvi Measured against the other two Nobel awards,..Mr. Faulkner's stature looms as nothing short of titanic. 2013 Cape Times (Nexis) 9 Oct. 26 Rafael Nadal yesterday revealed he's still in pain despite his titanic form since returning from injury. b. Of a contest, struggle, or conflict: waged between powerful and evenly matched people, groups, or forces; epic. Cf. clash of the Titans at Titan n.¹ and adj. Phrases. ΚΠ 1838 Hesperian May 19/2 What would have become of one of your prosers in the Johnsonian circle?..In their titanic struggles he would have been regarded as an ‘unconsidered trifle’. 1885 A. M. Gibson Polit. Crime i. 5 It was a titanic struggle. The thieves had millions stolen from the people. 1914 C. W. Domville-Fife Submarines, Mines & Torpedoes 10 The 1,500 surface warships engaged in this titanic struggle for the dominion of Europe. 1990 Atlantic May 57/2 The resulting contest is sure to be a titanic one. 2016 Sc. Sun (Nexis) 6 Aug. (Sport section) 8 It's likely to be a titanic battle between two of the country's biggest clubs for the automatic promotion place come the end of the season. †2. With capital initial. Of or relating to the sun; solar. Cf. Titan n.¹ 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sun > [adjective] > resembling sun-like?1593 Titanian1602 titanic1656 soliform1678 solar1754 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Titanic,..of or belonging to the Sun. 1712 On Death of Mr. E. Smith 11 Th' Embosom'd Rose, in radiant Morn, Disclosing Blushes to the Beams Titanic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). titanicadj.² Brit. /tʌɪˈtanɪk/, /tᵻˈtanɪk/, U.S. /taɪˈtænɪk/, /təˈtænɪk/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: titanium n., -ic suffix. Etymology: < titan- (in titanium n.) + -ic suffix. In sense 2 originally after French titanique (1823 in acide titanique : see titanic acid n. at Compounds).In titanic iron n. after Swedish titanjern (1814 in the passage translated in quot. 1814 at sense 1). 1. Mineralogy. Of a mineral, esp. iron ore: containing or yielding titanium. titanic iron n. (also titanic iron ore) = ilmenite n. ΚΠ 1814 J. Black tr. J. J. Berzelius Attempt Sci. Syst. Mineral. 83 Subtitanias triferrosus—Titanic-iron [Sw. titanjern], compact magnetic iron-stone. 1868 F. H. Joynson Metals in Constr. 87 Bessemer metal containing phosphorus may be dephosphorised by employing titanic pig-iron, in repeated doses, to eliminate the phosphorus. 1870 Watchmaker & Jeweler Jan. 82/3 Siliceous titanic minerals, as sphene, do not give the reaction with borax. 1939 Jrnl. Compar. Legislation & Internat. Law 21 50 The Cabinet is authorized to pay annually,..to every owner of a deposit of titanic iron ore being worked in the Province of Quebec, a premium of 1 cent per unit of metallic iron contained in each ton of iron ore. 2006 Slavonic & East European Rev. 84 626 Numerous more technical and scientific terms either remain very obscure or have disappeared altogether from both the Russian and the Czech lexicon, including ‘ilimenit’ (titanic iron ore). 2. Chemistry. Containing titanium; spec. forming names of compounds or salts in which the element has an oxidation state of +4; of or relating to titanium in this oxidation state. Contrasted with titanous adj.Recorded earliest in titanic acid n. at Compounds. ΚΠ 1823 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts Oct. 97 Mr. Rose treats of the peroxide of titanium, (called by him, properly enough, titanic acid,) and its combinations with the alkalis and acids. 1832 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts 22 270 Titanic sulphate. Sulphate of titanium. 1853 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. VIII. 148 The hydrocyanic acid must be passed in the form of gas into the titanic chloride. 1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Titanico-hydricus..applied by Berzelius to a titanic haloid salt..combined with the hydracid of the same halogenous body..: titanicohydric. 1923 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 45 2623 The preparation of titanous solutions..should not be much more difficult than the task of preparing the corresponding titanic solutions. 1955 J. C. Giblin Qualitative & Volumetric Anal. (ed. 2) iv. vii. 152 If the strength of the original titanic salt is known, each freshly reduced portion will have the same reduction value. 2011 Procedia Earth & Planetary Sci. 2 2 This process uses metal magnesium to reduce titanic chloride (TiCl₄) to titanium metal. Compounds titanic acid n. [after French acide titanique (1823 in a French translation of the paper summarized in quot. 1823), itself after Swedish titansyra (H. Rose 1821, in Kongliga Vetenskaps-Academiens handlingar 239)] †(a) titanium dioxide, TiO₂ (obsolete); (b) any of various (sometimes hypothetical) oxyacids containing titanium. ΚΠ 1823 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts Oct. 97 Mr. Rose treats of the peroxide of titanium, (called by him, properly enough, titanic acid,) and its combinations with the alkalis and acids. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1241/1 The peroxide, or titanic acid, exists nearly pure in titanite, or rutilite. 1924 A. J. Allmand & H. J. T. Ellingham Princ. Appl. Electrochem. (ed. 2) xxi. 521 A pure alumina..is generally prepared by the Bayer process from bauxite, a hydrated oxide of iron and aluminium, containing some silica and titanic acid. 1934 Jrnl. Physical Chem. 38 513 Tetravalent titanium, like tin, is said to form two distinct acids: ortho- or alpha titanic acid and meta- or beta titanic acid. 1998 Industr. & Engin. Chem. Res. 37 3869 Sulfated titania catalysts were prepared by precipitation of titanic acid from titanium tetrachloride using aqueous ammonia, followed by impregnation with sulfuric acid. titanic oxide n. titanium dioxide, TiO₂. ΚΠ 1832 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts 22 256 Titanic oxide. Protoxide of titanium. 1927 Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 62 63 Though the silica is a little lower and the titanic oxide higher, this analysis agrees rather closely with the average analysis of the world's basalts. 2012 Lowell (Mass.) Sun (Nexis) 30 July Alumina oxide, titanic oxide and many other nanoparticles that are commonly used in industrial manufacturing are white, and are indiscernible from fine pastry flour by sight. titanic schorl n. Mineralogy rare a typically black or reddish-brown mineral consisting of titanium dioxide, occurring as needle-like crystals; = rutile n. ΚΠ 1885 S. Fallows Progressive Dict. Eng. Lang. at Schorl Red and titanic schorl, names of rutile. 2011 Computer Physics Communications 182 1598 The TiO₂ sample includes octahedrite (68.37%) and titanic schorl (31.63%). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1912adj.¹1628adj.²1814
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