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il•men•ite
(il′mə nīt′),USA pronunciation n.
- Mineralogya very common black mineral, iron titanate, FeTiO3, occurring in crystals but more commonly massive.
- 1820–30; after the Ilmen Mountains (Russian Il’ménskie góry) in the southern Urals, where it was first identified; see -ite1
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