rutile
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Almon, Boulle & But chief executive John Sisay told Reuters the group's production of Placing to raise approximately US$25. 0 Cherry Consultants rutile -- mainly used to make the titanium dioxide pigment in paints, Million (£15.1 Million) » JR Boulle 7th paper, plastics and pharmaceuticals -- will be lower than anticipated » read more U.S.
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- noun A lustrous red, reddish-brown, or black mineral, TiO2, used as a gemstone, as an ore, and in paints and fillers.
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- Are you going to teach them how to extract titanium from rutile, or how to accumulate enough iron to develop a science of electrodynamics, or how to pass from this Stone Age they're living in now -- this Pottery Age, I should say -- into an Age of Plastics? — A Case Of Conscience
- There is clay to be found in some of the river valleys, with an appreciable alumina content, and rutile (titanium dioxide) is not uncommon. — A Case Of Conscience
- At this moment he would have given his son anything to stop the racking sobs that were shaking his body. — Dangerous Lady
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Almon, Boulle & But chief executive John Sisay told Reuters the group's production of Placing to raise approximately US$25. 0 Cherry Consultants rutile -- mainly used to make the titanium dioxide pigment in paints, Million (£15.1 Million) » JR Boulle 7th paper, plastics and pharmaceuticals -- will be lower than anticipated » read more U.S.
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- French, from German Rutil, from Latin rutilus, red; see rutilant.
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/ (ro͞oˈtēlˌ, -tīlˌ)/
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