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ilmenite

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Or you better hope the war didn't kill all the people who do know the location of, say rutile and ilmenite deposits.

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(mineralogy) A weakly magnetic dark gray mineral found in metamorphic and igneous rocks; it is a mixed oxide of iron and titanium, FeTiO₃

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noun

(mineralogy) A weakly magnetic dark gray mineral found in metamorphic and igneous rocks; it is a mixed oxide of iron and titanium, FeTiO₃

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noun

(mineralogy) A weakly magnetic dark gray mineral found in metamorphic and igneous rocks; it is a mixed oxide of iron and titanium, FeTiO₃

Example sentences

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Or you better hope the war didn't kill all the people who do know the location of, say rutile and ilmenite deposits.

2

Of that, ilmenite [1] is the primary titanium ore (reduced to sand).

3

I don't think magnetite is even the only magnetic mineral with Fe₃O₄ and if you want to be precise it should be ferro magnetite, because every thing from Fe₂O₃ (hematite) to FeTiO₃ (ilmenite) are weakly magnetic.

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I can add some details, namely that the USofA began development on the SR-71 in 1957 | 1958 at which time the only ilmenite mine in Australia was a relatively low volume affair in Bunbury, Western Australia.

5

Ilmenite and rutile come from mines, and then is industrially processed to isolate the titanium.

6

Ilmenite is named after the Ilmenski mountains in Russia where the mineral was first discovered in relatively free abundance, the other principle source for titanium is rutile sands..

Proper noun examples

1

Ilmenite and rutile come from mines, and then is industrially processed to isolate the titanium.

2

Ilmenite is named after the Ilmenski mountains in Russia where the mineral was first discovered in relatively free abundance, the other principle source for titanium is rutile sands..

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How do you use ilmenite in a sentence?

Or you better hope the war didn't kill all the people who do know the location of, say rutile and ilmenite deposits.

What does ilmenite mean?

(mineralogy) A weakly magnetic dark gray mineral found in metamorphic and igneous rocks; it is a mixed oxide of iron and titanium, FeTiO₃

What part of speech is ilmenite?

ilmenite is commonly used as noun.