ilmenite

ilmenite

See also: Ilmenite and ilménite

English

Ilmenite

Etymology

Named after Ilmen Mountains in Russia[1] +‎ -ite in 1827.[2]

Noun

ilmenite (countable and uncountable, plural ilmenites)

1. (mineralogy) A weakly magnetic dark gray mineral found in metamorphic and igneous rocks; it is a mixed oxide of iron and titanium, FeTiO₃

Synonyms

• menaccanite

Translations

a weakly magnetic dark gray mineral

Catalan: ilmenita f Czech: ilmenit Dutch: ilmeniet Finnish: ilmeniitti (fi) French: ilménite (fr) f German: Ilmenit Greek: ιλμενίτης (el) m (ilmenítis) Hebrew: אילמניט‎ (ʼīlmenīṭ) Italian: ilmenite (it) f Japanese: イルメナイト (irumenaito) Lithuanian: ilmenitas Polish: ilmenit (pl) Portuguese: ilmenita f Russian: ильменит (ru) (ilʹmenit) Serbo-Croatian: ilmenit (sh) Slovak: ilmenit Spanish: ilmenita f Ukrainian: ільменіт (ilʹmenit)

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Ilmenite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “ilmenite”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.

1. James D. Dana: Dana's System of Mineralogy. Volume I, seventh edition, revised by Charles Palache, Harry Berman, and Clifford Frondel. John Wiley & Sons, 1944
2. Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Anagrams

• line item, melinite, menilite, time line, time-line, timeline

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /il.meˈni.te/
• Rhymes: -ite
• Hyphenation: il‧me‧nì‧te

Noun

ilmenite f (plural ilmeniti)

1. ilmenite

Anagrams

• metileni