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The steeper angle gives anatase crystals a longer vertical axis and skinnier appearance than rutile. Additional important differences exist between the physical characters of anatase and rutile. For example, anatase is less hard (5.5–6 vs. 6–6.5 on the Mohs scale) and less dense (specific gravity about 3.9 vs. 4.2
Rutile is an oxide mineral composed of titanium dioxide (TiO 2), the most common natural form of TiO 2. Rarer polymorphs of TiO 2 are known, including anatase, akaogiite, and brookite. Rutile has one of the highest refractive indices at visible wavelengths of any known crystal and also exhibits a particularly large birefringence and high ...
Molten titanium dioxide has a local structure in which each Ti is coordinated to, on average, about 5 oxygen atoms. [9] This is distinct from the crystalline forms in which Ti coordinates to 6 oxygen atoms. Structure of anatase. Together with rutile and brookite, one of the three major polymorphs of TiO 2.
The most important oxide is TiO 2, which exists in three important polymorphs; anatase, brookite, and rutile. All three are white diamagnetic solids, although mineral samples can appear dark (see rutile). They adopt polymeric structures in which Ti is surrounded by six oxide ligands that link to other Ti centers. [5]
ISO/TS 11937 is a metrology standard for measuring several characteristics of dry titanium dioxide powder relevant for nanotechnology: crystal structure and anatase–rutile ratio can be measured using X-ray diffraction, average particle and crystallite sizes using X-ray diffraction or transmission electron microscopy, and specific surface area ...
Brookite is rare compared to anatase and rutile and, like these forms, it exhibits photocatalytic activity. [5] Brookite also has a larger cell volume than either anatase or rutile, with 8 TiO 2 groups per unit cell, compared with 4 for anatase and 2 for rutile. [6] Iron (Fe), tantalum (Ta) and niobium (Nb) are common impurities in brookite. [3]
The most stable (and most abundant) form is rutile, in which the coordination octahedra are arranged so that each one shares only two edges (and no faces) with adjoining octahedra. The other two, less stable, forms are brookite and anatase, in which each octahedron shares three and four edges respectively with adjoining octahedra. [2]: 559
The majority of transition metal dioxides (MO 2) have the rutile structure, seen to the right. Materials of this stoichiometry exist for Ti, Cr, V and Mn in the first row transition metal and for Zr to Pd in the second. The rutile structure is generated by filling half of the octahedral sites with cations of the hcp oxygen anion array. [5] [6]