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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Menaccanite  \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}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Illy  \Il"ly\,  adv  [A  word  not  fully  approved,  but  sometimes 
  used  for  the  adverb  ill.]  Ilmenite  \Il"men*ite\,  n.  [So 
  called  from  Ilmen,  a  branch  of  the  Ural  Mountains.]  (Min.) 
  Titanic  iron.  See  {Menaccanite}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  ilmenite 
  n  :  a  weakly  magnetic  black  mineral  found  in  metamorphic  and 
  plutonic  rocks;  an  iron  titanium  oxide  in  crystalline 
  form  a  source  of  titanium 




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