Rutile and its applications in earth sciences
In nature, titanium dioxide mainly occurs in three structural states: rutile, anatase and brookite (Fig. 2).Together they form the TiO 2 end-member of the ternary system FeO–Fe 2 O 3 –TiO 2 (Fig. 3).Rutile crystallises in the tetragonal space group P4 2 /mnm and is the most common phase, with unit cell parameters a = 4.594 Å and c = …