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Brookite


Mineral Name: Brookite

Composition: Titanium oxide

Nomenclature: Named after the English mineralogist, Henry James Brucke.

Industrial Uses: Ore of titanium.

Additional Notes: Brookite is a polymorph with two other minerals, anatase and rutile. Polymorphs (a term that means "multiple forms") are minerals that have the same chemical composition--titanium oxide in the case of anatase, brookite, and rutile--but have different crystallographic structures.



Monaco : Scott 1727 : 4.00 franc : 4 Sep 1990

Brookite