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Magnetite is an oxide of iron which occurs in igneous rocks, and in veins and replacement deposits; it is one of the most important ores of iron.

It usually occurs as a coarse, granular mass of black octahedral crystals, and produces a black streak.

Magnetite is permanently magnetic, and was the first magnetic material to be discovered, known then as lodestone.

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