C19: from German Titanit, so named because it contained titanium
titanite in American English
(ˈtaɪtənˌaɪt)
noun
sphene
Word origin
Ger titanit: see titanium & -ite1
Examples of 'titanite' in a sentence
titanite
The procedures are applied to zircon, titanite, rutile, apatite, columbite-tantalite and whole rock.
Robert S. Krymsky, Moacir J.B. Macambira, Jean-Michel Lafon, Gérson S. Estumano 2007, 'Uranium-lead dating method at the Pará-Iso isotope geology laboratory, UFPA, Belém- Brazil', Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciênciashttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652007000100014. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The primary stage of this rock might be represented by the assemblage of glaucophane + epidote + titanite ± paragonite.
Nugroho Imam Setiawan, Yasuhito Osanai, Nobuhiko Nakano, Tatsuro Adachi, Amril Asy'ari 2015, 'Metamorphic Evolution of Garnet-bearing Epidote-Barroisite Schist from the MeratusComplex in South Kalimantan, Indonesia', Indonesian Journal on Geosciencehttps://ijog.geologi.esdm.go.id/index.php/IJOG/article/view/204. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Later metamorphic events are manifested by the formation of uralite, secondary biotite and titanite, chlorite, sericite and prehnite.
T. Mutanen 1974, 'Petrography and protoclastic structures of the orbiculite boulders from Sääkslahti,Toivakka, Finland and the magmatic genesis of orbiculites', Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finlandhttp://www.geologinenseura.fi/bulletin/Volume46/sgs_bt_046_1_pages_053_074.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)