A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Anatase |
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| Description | Anatase is a polymorph with two other minerals. The minerals rutile and brookite, as well as anatase, all have the same chemistry, TiO2, but they have different structures. At higher temperatures, about 915 degrees Celsius, anatase will automatically revert to the rutile structure. Rutile is the more common and the more well known mineral of the three, while anatase is the rarest. Anatase shares many of the same or nearly the same properties as rutile, such as luster, hardness, and density. However, due to structural differences, anatase and rutile differ slightly in crystal habit and more distinctly in cleavage. |
| Location | USA ▹ Georgia |
| Photographer | Nessa Eull. 2001-09-20. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #1881. |
| Key words | Anatase, Georgia |
| Tech details | 674 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1563 |
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