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boundaries. Heating experiments carried out with the electron microscope showed that<br />

TiO 2 (B) was converted <strong>to</strong> anatase at a furnace temperature of ~700 ºC (~100 ºC below<br />

the anatase-rutile transformation).<br />

The most common form of TiO 2 in nature is rutile, which is an important accessory<br />

mineral in metamorphic rocks, particularly high-pressure ones. Wu et al. (2005)<br />

described a natural high-pressure phase of titanium oxide with -PbO 2 -structure. It<br />

occurred as (

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