How to Use magnetite in a Sentence

magnetite

noun

• That thick black sand is magnetite, an iron ore eroded from the sandstone cliff walls.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 23 Nov. 2019
• And that includes the, sort of the magnetite sediment that is being dumped into the lake.
  — National Geographic, 19 Nov. 2019
• Some birds, such as pigeons, have small crystals of magnetite in their beaks.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2010
• Those include clay pots fired in ancient kilns thousands of years ago, which sometimes contain small amounts of an iron ore called magnetite.
  — Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 4 July 2022
• Without it, Geobacter could no longer change rust into magnetite.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2020
• The process helps turn rust into another iron compound, called magnetite.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2019
• For his project, Ferreira added oil and magnetite to water and mixed in a solution emulating plastic waste in the ocean.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 1 Aug. 2019
• Basalt is a volcanic rock composed of augite and sometimes plagioclase and magnetite, which says nothing.
  — Louise Erdrich, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
• There is some magnetite in the limestone, so this alternative mechanism can’t be ruled out.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2017
• To find out, Martin’s and Moran’s teams joined forces to investigate three iron-rich minerals found near vents: greigite, magnetite, and awaruite.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 2 Mar. 2020
• As the magma rises, cools and gets pushed aside by newer magma, the magnetite within it preserves a record of Earth’s fickle magnetic field.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2019
• As magma cools into rock, magnetite grains, dispersed within and aligned with the magnetic field, become fixed: This records Earth’s polarity at the time the rock formed.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
• And given plausible flows of groundwater, the model produced about as much magnetite as Curiosity has seen in the rocks in a thousand years or so.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2018
• One of the most likely non-biological ways to make lookalike graphite is a reaction of iron carbonate that produces magnetite and graphite.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2017
• What’s more, magnetite crystals produced by bacteria have a distinctive string-of-pearls formation that was not found in the meteorite.
  — National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2016
• What’s more, magnetite crystals produced by bacteria have a distinctive string-of-pearls formation that was not found in the meteorite.
  — National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2016
• Australia produces a higher amount of hematite iron ore than any other country, which contains a larger quantity of usable iron than itabirite or magnetite.
  — Ben Westcott, CNN, 6 May 2021
• In one experiment, when Geobacter was prevented from making pili, the bacteria couldn’t turn rust to magnetite.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2019
• Oceanic crust, made of basaltic rock and rich in magnetite, is created at divergent plate boundaries, where the mantle is constantly coughing up new magma.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
• One involves a mineral called magnetite, whose crystals act as small, rotating magnets.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2020
• According to lobbying group the Minerals Council of Australia, hematite usually contains more than 50% iron compared to as low as 16% in magnetite.
  — Ben Westcott, CNN, 6 May 2021
• Specifically, the multi-heavy mineral prospect consists of abrasives garne and epidote, and zircon, magnetite and gold.
  — Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2019
• Early iron compass needles were magnetized by lodestone or magnetite minerals pulled from Earth.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
• The rocky planets all share minerals like olivine, feldspar, pyroxene and magnetite, but only this blue-green world has abundant hornblende, biotite, muscovite … and all those clays — all minerals that require water in their structure.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2019
• Early iron compass needles were magnetized by lodestone, or magnetized magnetite minerals, pulled from the Earth.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2019
• The presence of a fine vein of the iron oxide magnetite and a phosphate mineral called hydroxyapatite is in keeping with the asteroid forming at a surprisingly low temperature of less than 40° Celsius.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2022
• But price is always a consideration, so Block mentions magnetite as an alternative.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2019
• This view was dramatically changed by the discovery that living cells have the ability to build nanocrystals of the ferromagnetic mineral magnetite – basically, tiny iron magnets.
  — Shinsuke Shimojo, Daw-An Wu, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2019
• Magnetotactic or magnetic bacteria have extremely small crystals of magnetite inside their bodies.
  — Stephen Leahy, WIRED, 12 May 2006
• His research has provided a biophysical basis for understanding magnetic effects on animal behavior, including how accumulations of the mineral magnetite in specialized organs may explain magnetic field sensitivity in salmon and higher animals.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2021

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024