rutile

A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.

A ferruginous variety of rutile.

Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz.

-- applied to quartz when containing acicular crystals of other minerals, most commonly rutile, also tourmaline, actinolite, and the like.

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