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Titanium

By p.scott14

  • Titanium was discovered

    Titanium was discovered
    Titanium was discovered, included in a mineral in Cornwall, United Kingdom, in 1791 by amateur geologist William Gregor. He recognized the presence of a new element in ilmenite.

  • Titanium was independently discovered

    Titanium was independently discovered
    Titanium was independently discovered by the German chemist M.H. Klaproth in 1793.

  • First pure metallic titanium

    First pure metallic titanium
    Pure metallic titanium (99.9%) was first prepared in 1910 by Matthew A. Hunter by heating TiCl4 with sodium at 700–800 °C in the Hunter process.

  • Titanium of very high purity was made

    Titanium of very high purity was made
    Titanium of very high purity was made in small quantities when some scientest discovered the a process that reacted with iodine and decomposing the formed vapors over a hot filament to pure metal. This was disvored in 1925.

  • Titanium metal used outside the laboratory for first time

    Titanium metal used outside the laboratory for first time
    Titanium metal was not used outside the laboratory until 1932 when William Justin Kroll proved that it could be produced by reducing titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4) with calcium.

  • 1st titanium mill opened

    1st titanium mill opened
    1957-11-02 - 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto Ohio.

  • Titanium used in warfare.

    Titanium used in warfare.
    In the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet Union used titanium in military and submarine applications as part of programs related to the Cold War.

  • U.S. Defense Agency awarded $5.7 million

    U.S. Defense Agency awarded $5.7 million
    In 2006, the U.S. Defense Agency awarded $5.7 million to a two-companys to develop a new process for making titanium metal powder. Under heat and pressure, this could be used to create strong, lightweight items ranging from armor plating to components for the aerospace, transportation, and chemical processing industries.