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Definition of Titanium

1. Noun. A light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite.

Definition of Titanium

1. n. An elementary substance found combined in the minerals manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc., and isolated as an infusible iron-gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic weight 48.1.

Definition of Titanium

1. Noun. a chemical element, atomic number 22; it is a strong, corrosion-resistant transition metal, used to make light alloys for aircraft etc . ¹

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Definition of Titanium

1. a metallic element [n -S]

Medical Definition of Titanium

1. An elementary substance found combined in the minerals manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc, and isolated as an infusible iron-gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Atomic weight: 48.1 Abbreviation: Ti Origin: NL, fr. L. Titani or Titanes, Gr, the sons of the earth. (30 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Titanium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"The water thus removed will not contain any titanium if the operation has ... The titanium solution is allowed to rerr.ain in the reductor for ten minutes. ..."

2. Journal by Iron and Steel Institute (1892)
"titanium in Iron.—Mr. JB Naut observes that titanium is frequently found in iron ores ... titanium is difficult to reduce, and by far the largest part of it ..."

3. A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic by Arthur Messinger Comey, Dorothy Anna Hahn (1921)
"Insol. in cold or hot KOH+Aq. (Winkler, B. 1890, 23. 2659.) titanium ... Decomposes very quickly with H2O, forming titanium ..."

4. Analytical Chemistry by Frederick Pearson Treadwell (1921)
"titanium occurs in nature most frequently as the dioxide, rutile (tetragonal), ... titanium itself is a gray metal, very similar to iron. ..."

5. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"and the metal obtained in the form of a dark-gray amorphous powder. Prepared in this way, however, titanium almost always contains titanium nitride ..."

6. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"Hydrogen peroxide, H:O2, added to this titanium solution, produce? a yellow to orange color, according to the amount of titanium present. ..."

7. A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic by Arthur Messinger Comey (1896)
"titanium, Ti. Sol. in HCl + Aq if warmed. Sol. in cold dil. ... titanium chloride phosphine. Decomp. by H20, HCl + Aq, KOH + Aq, or + Aq, or (N H4)2C03 + ..."

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