rutile

See also: rutilé

English

Etymology

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

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.

Derived terms

• pseudorutile

Translations

the most frequent of the three polymorphs of titanium dioxide

• Bulgarian: рутил (bg) m (rutil)
• Chinese: 金红石 (zh) (jīnhóngshí)
• Czech: rutil
• Dutch: rutiel (nl)
• Finnish: rutiili
• French: rutile (fr)
• Galician: rútilo (gl) m
• German: Rutil
• Hebrew: רוטיל (rūṭīl)
• Hungarian: rutil (hu)
• Italian: rutilo (it) m
• Japanese: 金紅石
• Lithuanian: rutilas
• Persian: روتیل (rutil)
• Polish: rutyl (pl)
• Portuguese: rutilo m
• Russian: рутил (ru) (rutil)
• Slovak: rutil
• Slovene: rutil
• Spanish: rutilo (es) m
• Swedish: rutil (sv)

See also

• anatase
• brookite

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Rutile”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “rutile”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

rutile m (plural rutiles)

1. (mineralogy) rutile

Further reading

• “rutile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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