rutile

See also: rutilé

English

Etymology

From Latin rutilus (“red”) because of its common color, named in 1803.[1]

Noun

rutile (countable and uncountable, plural rutiles)

  1. (mineralogy) The most frequent of the three polymorphs of titanium dioxide, crystalizing in the tetragonal system, TiO2.
Light colored lines are rutile growing inside a quartz crystal.

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Further reading
  • David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Rutile”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
  • “rutile”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
  1. Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

French

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Noun

rutile m (plural rutiles)

  1. (mineralogy) rutile

Further reading

Latin

Adjective

rutile

  1. vocative masculine singular of rutilus

Spanish

Verb

rutile

  1. inflection of rutilar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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