Pure titanium is a lustrous silver-white metallic element used principally to make light, strong alloys. The metal has a low density, good strength, and has excellent corrosion resistance. The element is the ninth most abundant in the earth's crust but is never found in the pure state. It occurs as an oxide in the minerals ilmenite (FeTiO3), rutile (TiO2) and sphene (CaO. TiO2. SiO2) but it mainly contains rutile and ilmenite that are more stable than the pure titanium.
The process of extracting titanium from its ore mainly involves 2 different chemical reactions. The magnesium reduction process, or the Kroll process is the mo
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