1846 Hare Mission Comf. 601Considered as a higher pitch of heroism by the *Titanolaters.
1867 Hare's Guesses, Mem. 47A protest against what he called the *Titanolatry paraded in them.
1887 Gladstone in Contemp. Rev. June 760The great myth of the *Titanomachy.
1892 Pall Mall G. 22 Mar. 7/1 In Colorado have been found great deposits of the bones of *titanosaurs, the biggest land animals that ever existed. They grew to be 65 ft. long and stood 40 ft. high when erect upon their hind legs.
1881 Lubbock in Nature 1 Sept. 406/2Marsh has made known to us the *Titanosaurus, of the American (Colorado) Jurassic beds.
1862 Dana Man. Geol. 515The *Titanothere..having some relations to the modern Tapir.
Ibid. 532White River or *Titanotherian beds.
1890 Nature 13 Feb. 347/1 These *Titanotherioids appear to have been most nearly allied to the Rhinoceroses among existing forms.
1865 Page Handbk. Geol. Terms,*Titanotherium,..a large herbivorous mammal occurring in the Lower Miocene beds of the Missouri district.
1933 Zeitschr. für Kristallogr. LXXXVI. 112The *titanaugite in question forms a small patch or segregation within a sphene-rich, plagioclase-diopside-hornfels xenolith in the Haddo norite.
1963 W. A. Deer et al. Rock-Forming Minerals II. 109Titanaugites are the typical pyroxenes of basic alkaline rocks, e.g. teschenite, essexite and nepheline dolerite.
1970 Nature 28 Nov. 850/2 The principal minerals in the rock are zoned plagioclase..; nepheline; and titanaugite, grading at the edges of the crystals into aegirine.
1938 A. B. Edwards in Proc. AustralasianInst. Mining & MetallurgyNo. 110. 42This ‘white ilmenite’ is quite distinct from ordinary hematite... The name ‘*titanhematite’ is here suggested to indicate its difference from pure hematite.
1945 N.Z. Jrnl. Sci. &Technol. B. XXVI. 299A range from pure titanomagnetite to pure titanhæmatite is..present in a small percentage of the iron-ore grains.
1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xvii. 255/1Ultimately, in the highest state of oxidation.., the original titanomagnetite has been converted mainly to pseudobrookite (Fe2TiO5) and titanohaematite (Fe2O3) containing a little titanium.
1953 E. Z. Basta Mineral. Aspects of System FeO–Fe2O3–TiO2 (Ph.D. Thesis,Univ. of Bristol) vi. 71For those minerals with composition approaching (Fe, Ti)2O3 ( e.g. the Bushveld maghemites) I propose the new name ‘*titano⁓maghemite’.
1971 Nature 5 Mar. 28/1 Under conditions of low temperature and high oxygen fugacity..titanomagnetite tends to oxidize to an equilibrium mineral assemblage of rutile and haematite, with intermediate formation of titanomaghemite, ilmenite and iron-rich titanomagnetite.
1900 Mineral. Mag. XII. 393*Titano⁓magnetite... Titaniferous magnetite. 2Fe. [ (Fe, Ti)O2]
1945 . [ see titanohæmatite above]
1962 W. A. Deer et al. Rock-Forming Minerals V. 68A considerable amount of Ti can enter the magnetite structure, there being a continuous relationship between magnetite and the ulvöspinel molecule, Fe2TiO4... The term titanomagnetite is best restricted to those specimens where the presence of an ulvöspinel phase can be demonstrated.
1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xvii. 255/1The mineral which accounts for the magnetic properties of most rocks, and especially basalts, is titanomagnetite.
1880 Nature XXI. 425 Under the name of *Titanomorphite, A. von Lasaulx describes a new lime-titanite from the gneiss of the Eulengebirge.
1884 Athenæum 16 Aug. 212/3 Titanomorphite crystallizing in the oblique system.
1860 Mayne Expos. Lex. ,Titanoxydum,..term by Beudant for a combination of titanium with oxygen: a *titanoxide.
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ORIGIN: from (the same root as) titanic adjective 1 : see -o- .
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ORIGIN: from titanium : see -o- .
titano-
— see titan-
— see titan-
titano-
Prefix
- Combined with titanium