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anatase
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n. (context mineral English) a blue or brown mineral, a form of titanium dioxide, used as a pigment
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Anatase is one of the three mineral forms of titanium dioxide , the other two being brookite and rutile . It is always found as small, isolated and sharply developed crystals , and like rutile, a more commonly occurring modification of titanium dioxide, ...
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One crystal form, anatase, is furthermore even capable, at least in theory, of splitting water molecules all by itself.
The best-known locality is Fronolen near Tremadoc in North Wales, where crystals of the thin tabular habit occur with crystallized quartz, albite and anatase on the walls of crevices in diabase.
Minute crystals of brookite have been detected with anatase and rutile in the iron-ore of Cleveland in Yorkshire.
The best-known locality is Fronolen near Tremadoc in North Wales, where crystals of the thin tabular habit occur with crystallized quartz, albite and anatase on the walls of crevices in diabase.