Brookite
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These samples of brookite are displayed in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Brookite is an oxide mineral of titanium with the composition TiO2 . This sample is about 5x2 cm and is from Saulspitze, Virgen, Salzburg, Austria.
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These two samples of Brookite are from Magnet Cove, Arkansas. The sample at left is about 4x4 cm.
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Brookite in wafer-like crystals is embedded in this larger rock sample along with small quartz crystals about the size of rice grains. The brookite crystals measure about a centimeter.
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The larger sample is about 15x15 cm and is from Fronolen, Tremadoc, Wales.
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Mindat: Brookite
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