Brookite Definition

Brookite Sentence Examples

• The commonest titanium mineral is rutile or titanium dioxide, T102; anatase and brookite are crystalline allotropes.

• Titanium dioxide, T102, occurs in nature as the three distinct mineral species rutile, brookite and anatase.

• At a red heat rutile is produced, at the boiling point of zinc brookite, and of cadmium anatase.

• Under all these three conditions the diamond is associated with fragments of the rocks of the country and the minerals derived from them, 'especially quartz, hornstone, jasper, the polymorphous oxide of titanium (rutile, anatase and brookite), oxides and hydrates of iron (magnetite, ilmenite, haematite, limonite), oxide of tin, iron pyrites, tourmaline, garnet, xenotime, monazite, kyanite, diaspore, sphene, topaz, and several phosphates, and also gold.

• Titanium, in the minerals known as octahedrite and brookite, is found in alluvial deposits in New South Wales, in conjunction with diamonds.