Me*nac"can*ite (?), n. [From Menaccan, in Cornwall, where it was first found.] Min.

An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite.

 

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