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What does brookite mean?

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Noun
  1. (mineralogy) A dark brown mineral form of titanium dioxide, with the chemical formula TiO2.
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Brookite is best known from alpine-cleft-type occurrences, where it is round with anatase, rutile, titanite, quartz, adularia, albite, hematite, calcite, and chlorite.
Brookite occurs only as crystals, never in compact masses, and is usually associated with either anatase or rutile.
Titanium dioxide has three crystalline forms including anatase, rutile and brookite.
Minute crystals of brookite have been detected with anatase and rutile in the iron-ore of Cleveland in Yorkshire.
The area is probably producing the most brookite from a quartz-crystal deposit at present, though it is hard to find any good ones for sale.
Titanic acid occurs in nature crystallized in anatase, arkansite, brookite, and rutile.

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