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mabottle
mabottle
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Which are the important properties of titanium?

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Posted by mabottle on Friday June 26, 2009 at 6:37 AM and tagged with property, science, titanium.


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  1. dominion Teacher
    Vocational

    Titanium(symbol Ti) has an atomic number of 22, it is a silver gray colored, light material which has a density somewhere between that of stainless steel and aluminun. A relatively abundant material,titanium has a number of important properties: It is has an excellent strength to weight ratio which make it a superb choice for aircraft, is very resistant to corrosion especially to chemicals like chlorine and acid, has a very low density. Another important property is it's very high melting point 1,660°C. as well as a high melting point 3,287. Titainium importantly has a huge number of appications in many different fields ranging from medical, oil  refining, steel and the aerospace industry.

     

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    Posted by dominion on Friday June 26, 2009 at 7:16 AM

  2. krishna-agrawala
    krishna-agrawala Teacher
    Graduate School

    eNotes Editor

    Titanium is a silver grey metal with chemical symbol Ti. It is the ninth most abundant element in the world. However because it is very difficult to extract titanium from the ores, it is a very expensive metal. If it was possible to find a way to extract titanium in a inexpensive way, it has the potential of replacing both steel and aluminium as the primary material for construction of many products.

    It is ductile

    Density of Titanium is between aluminium and steel. Its density is about 56% of steel. It is stronger than aluminium and about as strong as steel. It also has better corrosion resistant properties than stainless steel. It is also a ductile. At the same time it has high hardness.

    It is not a good conductor of electricity.

    Titanium melts at temperature 1725 degrees centigrade. It boils at 3287 degrees centigrade.

    Its atomic number is 22 and atomic weight is 47.88.

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    Posted by krishna-agrawala on Friday June 26, 2009 at 7:23 AM