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Titanic. The Titan physical difficulties of his enterprise. I. Taylor.

A massive crane with an overhanging counterbalanced arm carrying a traveler and lifting crab, the whole supported by a carriage mounted on track rails. It is used esp. for setting heavy masonry blocks for piers, breakwaters, etc.

A salt of titanic acid.

Of or relating to Titans, or fabled giants of ancient mythology; hence, enormous in size or strength; as, Titanic structures.

Containing or affording titanium; as, titaniferous magnetite.

See Sphene.

Pertaining to, or containing, titanium; as, a titanitic mineral.

An elementary substance found combined in the minerals manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc., and isolated as an infusible iron- gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic weight 48.1.

A combining form (also used adjectively) designating certain double compounds of titanium with some other elements; as, titano- cyanide, titano-fluoride, titano-silicate, etc.

A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.

Designating certain compounds of titanium in which that element has a lower valence as contrasted with titanic compounds.

Act or state of lying hid, or lurking. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Lying hid; concealed; latent. [R.]

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of titanium analogous to metasilicic acid.

f igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle- green particles of olivine frequently disseminated.

A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.

To contract; to stipulate; to agree. It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children. Sir W. Raleigh.

A rare mineral, containing chiefly niobium, titanium, thorium, and cerium. It was so called by Berzelius on account of the inability of chemical science, at the time of its discovery, to separate some of its constituents.

A brownish black mineral with a metallic luster, found in Norway. It contains niobium, titanium, yttrium, and uranium, with some other metals.

Titanic iron. See Menaccanite.