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Titanium is a very strong, yet light weight chemical element. Titanium's atomic number is 22 and its chemical symbol is Ti. Titanium has an atomic weight of 47.867. Titanium comes from the Greek word, Titans, meaning "first sons of the earth". It is a luminous transition metal that has many uses.

Titanium was discovered in 1791 by the English pastor and amateur  geologist, Reverend William Gregor in Cornwall, Great Britain. He identified the existence of the new element, which he called manaccanite, in a black sand known as ilmenite. After noticing that the sand was attracted by a magnet, Gregor decided to analyze it. He determined that the sand had iron oxide and a white, metallic oxide that he was unable to identify. Upon the realization that the unidentified oxide encompassed a metal with different properties all other known elements, Gregor took his discoveries to the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall and to Crell's Annalen, a science journal. Titanium did not get its modern name until 1795, when Martin Heinrich Klaproth, the leading German chemist of his time, rediscovered it and tested previous samples. Klaproth looked back at Gregor's findings and confirmed the new element as Titanium.

When most people think about Titanium, we picture jewelry, silverware, golf clubs, and other everyday objects. We don't realize that Titanium is used in many more things around us. Because Titanium completely hypoallergenic, resists corrosion, and is able to join with human bone, it has become prominent in the field of medicine. Medical grade Titanium is used in numerous things such as, pins, bone plates, screws, expandable rib cages, finger and toe replacements, and even maxio-facial prosthetics. This extremely strong element is also used for alloys with aluminum, molybdenum, manganese, iron, and other metals. These alloys are used primarily in the aerospace industry, for airframes and engines, where light-weight strength and the ability to withstand drastic temperatures is crucial. The Titanium dioxide white pigment makes up for the largest use of the element. Titanium dioxide is used in paint, sunscreen, food coloring, and even in toothpaste. We see and even sometimes use Titanium in each and every day of our lives.

Titanium is the ninth most abundant element and the seventh most abundant metal in the Earth's crust. Although Titanium is not found innately in nature around us, it is found in some minerals- rutile, ilmenite, and sphene. It is extracted from these minerals using the Kroll process. Titanium is also found in meteorites and is contained in the sun and M-type stars, which are the coolest type of stars. Sometimes it is even found in the human body.

Titanium is all around us. We may not realize that we come across it on a daily basis, but we do. It started as just being used in the laboratory, and now we see it everywhere. Titanium has been a major advantage to the medical field and in many other fields as well. Titanium makes doing many things less difficult and it will continue to do that. We are evolving and Titanium will advance alon g with us.



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