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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  1. 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
  • 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. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • "Incoming Message," Alexander said —  Blue Fingernails
 

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  1. French, from German Rutil, from Latin rutilus, red; see rutilant.

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/ (ro͞oˈtēlˌ, -tīlˌ)/
ahd pronounces "rutile"
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