Meaning of arizonite | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A titanate of iron, Fe₂Ti₃O₉.
   uncountable, usually
2. A kind of iron-laden silver ore discovered during Arizona's silver rush in the 1870s.
   historical, obsolete, uncountable, usually

Examples

“The close⟳ ratio of ferric oxide to titanic oxide, viz., 1:3·03, indicates that the mineral is really ferric metatitanate, Fe₂O₃.3TiO₂ or Fe₂Ti₃O₉. Moreover, the crystallographic determinations strengthen the view⟳ that this titanate of iron⟳ cannot be assigned to any known species, but is entirely new. I propose⟳ to name⟳ it Arizonite... There appears to be no authentic prior record⟳ of the occurrence in nature of a simple ferric metatitanate... Upon readjustment of the analytical data as cited by Rammelsberg, it appears that his mineral consists essentially of 60 per cent ferrous titanate (FeO.TiO₂), ilmenite, and 40 per cent ferric titanate (Fe₂O₃.3TiO₂), arizonite.”

“Silver occurs, native, in various lodes... The Sumner lode produces a new combination of ore. The principal vein matter⟳ is micaceous iron⟳, iodide of silver, gold, sulphurets of iron⟳, and antimony. The name⟳ Arizonite has been given to it by Mr. H. G. Hanks, of San Francisco.”

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