titaniticadj.
/ˌtʌɪtəˈnɪtɪk/, U.S. /ˌtaɪtnˈɪdɪk/ Chiefly Mineralogy. Now rare.
Containing titanium; = titanic adj.2 titanitic iron n. = ilmenite n.; cf. titanic iron n. at titanic adj.2 1.
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1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 330 [Titanite] melted..with 5 times it's weight of mild Tartarin... When dissolved in boiling water, it soon let fall a white substance... This I call Titanitic Calx.
1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 331 Titanitic Ores.
1845 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 15 280 Titanitic iron forms nearly ninety per cent. of the sea sands.
1877 Proc. Royal Irish Acad.: Sci. 1875–7 2 126 In the neighbourhood of Furbogh were observed patches of a very hornblendic and titanitic granite.
1986 Chem. Geol. 54 175/1 This enrichment, difficult to explain theoretically, could result from the occurrence of highly rich Cr minerals found in the fine-grained fraction, e.g. titanitic minerals of ilmenite type.
1998 Geologica Balcanica (Bulgarian Acad. Sci.) 28 30 Country Frameworks... Ukraine... Titanitic Iron ore sources of Polesye.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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