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Iscrina. 
SLat^ila, 
METALS. 99. Titanium. 
whkH becomes brown on cooling : fpecilic gravity 4,427* 
contains, oxyde of iron 46, oxydfe of titanium 45, with 
feme filiea and manganefe. Gregor, 
In fitiali rounded grains, bfowiiifli- black, hard, brittle, 
of a conchoidal texture, not attraaed by the magnet. 
Ifoine. Jourtt dc mineral. 13 . 
If rine. ihorysn chem. 4. ^ I 24. 
lountj in the f.ndof the river Ijerixi Bohemia, of an iron-black 
colour tending to brown, and is hard, heavy, and brittle, 
Compaa, reddifh brown, Opake, of a foliated texture^ 
fbrming a violet-black glafs with microcofmic fait. 
Titanite. Kir^an m n %. 329. 
Suthiie flyjniJ a chem. 4. p- 120. •• 
Found in Ihuugan, the Pyrenees, the Alps, and in Sritanyt 
generally cryltalliaed in 4 ot 6-fided piifms or acicuiart 
colour red or brownifh-red, with a brick or orange powder: 
when hsfed with carbonate of potah and diluted with water, 
a white powder preripitates : before the blowpipe it does not 
melt, but becomes opake and brown : with borax it forms a 
deep yellow glafs with a tinge of brown ; it mixes with fodaj 
but does not farm a tranfparciit glafs: fpecilic gravity from 
4,t8o. 104,246: when pure it is compoled entirely of oxyde 
of titanium, .4 variety called Anataje is found ir Dauphiny, 
varying in having its cryftals in an elongated oftahearort 
whofe bafe is a fquare, with the fomroits complete or trun- 
cated, and the faces tranfverfely llriate: colour fteel-grey 
verging to black or deep blue: luftre vitreous, generally 
opake; fpecific gravity 3,857. 
Conipacl, hard, brittle, with a waxy luffre and foliated 
texture, imperteilly foluble in muriatic acid, from 
which if precipitates a clammy yellowifli mafs with 
the addition of ammonia. 
Calcarco-filiceous titanic ore. Kirassan miner. 2. p. 331. 
f^igrine, Titanite, Sphere. ‘Ihomjhn chem. p. 123. 
Found near PaJJace in Bavaria^ at Arendal in PPorojoay, and 
near St. Gothard, fomeiimes maffive or difleininited, foine- 
times cryftallized in fhort ohtufangled 4 fided pnfms : colour 
reddifli, ycliowifh or blackifh brown, rarely whitilh-grey 
with a ivhitilh-grcy powder: before the blowpipe it is infu- 
fible, but in charcoal it is converted into a black opake po- 
rous litg; fpccific gravity 3,510; contains, oxyde of tita- 
nium 33, filica 35, lime 33. Klaproth. 
