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Titanium is a lightweight, strong and corrosion-resistant metal that is commonly used in aerospace, automotive, medical and chemical processing industries. It exists in different grades and alloys, each with unique properties suitable for particular applications. This article will define titanium, describe its characteristics and different grades/alloys, and explain its common applications.

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Tatanium

Titanium is a lightweight, strong and corrosion-resistant metal that is commonly used in aerospace, automotive, medical and chemical processing industries. It exists in different grades and alloys, each with unique properties suitable for particular applications. This article will define titanium, describe its characteristics and different grades/alloys, and explain its common applications.

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Titanium is a silvery-white metal valued for its high strength, light weight, and corrosion

resistance. Its unique and desirable properties have led to its use in numerous industries
and applications, primarily in the aerospace, automotive, medical, and chemical
processing industries. Several grades and alloys of titanium exist, and each alloy type has
unique properties that make it suitable for particular applications. This article will define
titanium and describe its characteristics, discuss its different grades and alloys, and
explain the applications in which titanium is used.

What Is Titanium?

Titanium is a silvery-white metal with atomic number 22. It is a lightweight, ductile, strong,
corrosion-resistant, and biocompatible metal with a high strength-to-weight ratio. Titanium
is the 9th most abundant element on Earth. It is commonly found in rocks, clay, and sand.
Rutile and ilmenite are the two primary commercial minerals from which titanium is
extracted and refined. Titanium is classified into alpha-alloys, beta-alloys, and alpha-beta
alloys. Titanium alpha alloys are alloyed with only oxygen, often alloyed with other metals,
such as aluminum, molybdenum, and vanadium. The addition of these metals helps obtain
desirable properties such as improved strength, corrosion resistance, and reduced weight.
Common applications of titanium and its alloys include: commercial and aerospace
applications, condensers in power plants, desalination plants, marine applications,
architectural products, medical implants such as joint replacement hardware, and
consumer goods like golf clubs and bicycle frames.

What Is the Origin of Titanium?

Titanium was discovered in 1791 by William Gregor, an English chemist, and mineralogist,
and named by Martin Heinrich, a German chemist, in 1795. Klaproth named the element
“titanium” after the Titans in Greek mythology. However, it wasn’t until 1910 that pure
titanium was obtained. M. A. Hunter, a scientist working at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, isolated the metal by heating titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4) with sodium at high
pressure and temperature (1292-1472 °F), generating pure titanium and sodium chloride as
a byproduct. Then, in 1932, William Justin Kroll isolated titanium by reducing TiCl4 through
fractional distillation with calcium, and later with magnesium and sodium. Today, the “Kroll
Process” is the process frequently used for commercially producing titanium.

What Is Another Term for Titanium?


Titanium is sometimes referred to as the “Wonder Metal” or the “aerospac

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