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Definition of Brookite

Brookite
Brookite Brook"ite, n. [Named from the English mineralogist, H. J. Brooke.] (Min.) A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.

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- Brookite is the orthorhombic variant of titanium dioxide (TiO2), which occurs in four known natural polymorphic forms (minerals with the same composition...
- crystal structures of rutile and anatase are tetragonal in symmetry whereas brookite is orthorhombic. The oxygen substructures are all slight distortions of...
- Rarer polymorphs of TiO2 are known, including anatase, akaogiite, and brookite. Rutile has one of the highest refractive indices at visible wavelengths...
- approximately 0.5–1.5%. Common titanium-containing minerals are anatase, brookite, ilmenite, perovskite, rutile, and titanite (sphene). Akaogiite is an extremely...
- form". Terminology for pseudomorphs is "replacer after original", as in brookite after rutile. An infiltration pseudomorph, or substitution pseudomorph...
- Briartite Bridgmanite Brochantite Brockite Bromargyrite Bromellite Bronzite Brookite Brownleeite Brownmillerite Brucite Bru****e Buddingtonite Bukovite Bukovskyite...
- available in 1921. It is made out of titanium dioxide, from the minerals brookite, anatase, rutile, or ilmenite, currently the major source. Because of its...
- polymorphs (or mineral forms) of titanium dioxide are known to occur naturally: brookite, akaogiite, and rutile, with rutile being the most common and most stable...
- Bi****otantalite Biotite Boleite Boracite Bornite Brazilianite Breithauptite Brookite Brucite Bustamite Bytownite Calcite Manganoan calcite (var.) Caledonite...
- These rules led to the structure of brookite (1928) and an understanding of the relative stability of the rutile, brookite and anatase forms of titanium dioxide...