xanthitane
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xanthitane (uncountable)
- A yellow fibrous earthy material that is an aluminium titanite.
- 1942, A. B. Edwards, The chemical composition of leucoxene in Cainozoic bauxite from Boolarra, Victoria:
- In view of the highly aluminous nature of the enclosing rock, there seemed some possibility that this mineral might be the little-known aluminium titanate, xanthitane
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- “xanthitane”, in Mindat.org[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.