rutile
Light colored lines are rutile growing inside a quartz crystal.
Meaning
Noun
- The most frequent of the three polymorphs of titanium dioxide, crystalizing in the tetragonal system, TiO2</sub>.
Origin
- From Latin rutilus ("red") because of its common color, named in 1803.
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