combining form of TITANIUM (and TITANITE), used in the names of chemical and mineral compounds, as titano-cyanide, -ferrite, -fluoride, -silicate (= silico-titanate); Titanolivine, ‘a variety of olivine (chrysolite) containing titanic acid’ (Chester); Titanomorphite, ‘an uncertain alteration product, near titanite’ (Chester); † Titanoxide: see quot.
1880. Nature, XXI. 425. Under the name of *Titanomorphite, A. von Lasaulx describes a new lime-titanite from the gneiss of the Eulengebirge.
1884. Athenæum, 16 Aug., 212/3. Titanomorphite crystallizing in the oblique system.
1860. Mayne, Expos. Lex., Titanoxydum,… term by Beudant for a combination of titanium with oxygen: a *titanoxide.
