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What does sphene mean?

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Noun
  1. (mineralogy) titanite
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One of my favorite gems is sphene, or more properly, titanite.
Reddish grains of sphene or of garnet are occasionally visible.
Accessory minerals are represented by apatite, zoisite, sphene, calcite, fluorite and magnetite.
Ilmenite is now largely preserved as skeletal crystals in which exsolved magnetite lamellae have been altered, and the ilmenite itself partly altered to sphene.
Among other minerals found in them are biotite, chlorite, tourmaline, epidote, apatite, garnet, hornblende, augite, sphene and pyrites.
How about sphene versus titanite, or celestine versus celestite?

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