Anatase Definition

ănə-tās, -tāz
noun
A rare blue or light yellow to brown crystalline mineral, the rarest of three forms of titanium dioxide, TiO2 , used as a pigment, especially in paint.
American Heritage
A dark-colored, hard, tetragonal form of titanium dioxide, usually found in schist and gneiss.
Webster's New World

A blue or brown mineral, a form of titanium dioxide, used as a pigment.

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Other Word Forms of Anatase

Noun

Singular:
anatase
Plural:
anatases

Origin of Anatase

  • French from Greek anatasis extension (from its long crystals) from anateinein anata- to extend ana- ana- teinein to stretch ten- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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