A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Rutile |
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| Description | Rutile, TiO2 (titanium oxide), is an interesting, varied and important mineral. Rutile is a major ore of titanium, a metal used for high tech alloys because of its light weight, high strength, and resistance to corrosion. Rutile is also unwittingly of major importance to the gemstone markets. It also forms its own interesting and beautiful mineral specimens. |
| Photographer | Nessa Eull. 2001-09-20. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #1878. |
| Key words | Rutile |
| Tech details | 281 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1562 |
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