Anatase Definition

ănə-tās, -tāz
noun
A rare blue or light yellow to brown crystalline mineral, the rarest of three forms of titanium dioxide, TiO2 , used as a pigment, especially in paint.
American Heritage
A dark-colored, hard, tetragonal form of titanium dioxide, usually found in schist and gneiss.
Webster's New World

A blue or brown mineral, a form of titanium dioxide, used as a pigment.

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Other Word Forms of Anatase

Noun

Singular:
anatase
Plural:
anatases

Origin of Anatase

  • French from Greek anatasis extension (from its long crystals) from anateinein anata- to extend ana- ana- teinein to stretch ten- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Anatase Sentence Examples

  • The commonest titanium mineral is rutile or titanium dioxide, T102; anatase and brookite are crystalline allotropes.

  • Titanium dioxide, T102, occurs in nature as the three distinct mineral species rutile, brookite and anatase.

  • At a red heat rutile is produced, at the boiling point of zinc brookite, and of cadmium anatase.

  • Under all these three conditions the diamond is associated with fragments of the rocks of the country and the minerals derived from them, 'especially quartz, hornstone, jasper, the polymorphous oxide of titanium (rutile, anatase and brookite), oxides and hydrates of iron (magnetite, ilmenite, haematite, limonite), oxide of tin, iron pyrites, tourmaline, garnet, xenotime, monazite, kyanite, diaspore, sphene, topaz, and several phosphates, and also gold.

  • Rutile assumes tetragonal forms isomorphous with cassiterite, SnO 2 (and also zircon, ZrSiO 4); anatase is also tetragonal, and brookite or thorhombic. Rutile is the most stable and anatase the least, a character reflected in the decrease in density from rutile (4.2) and brookite (4.0) to anatase (3.9).

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