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Titanium

Formula:
Ti
System:HexagonalColour:Silver-grey
Lustre:MetallicHardness:4


Two forms of native titanium have been found - one, found in granite, crystallizes in the hexagonal system, the other as minute inclusions in garnet from an ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic complex crystallizes in the tetragonal system.

Classification of Titanium

IMA status:Questionable/Doubtful
Strunz 8th edition ID:1/A.06-05
Nickel-Strunz 10th (pending) edition ID:1.AB.05

1 : ELEMENTS (Metals and intermetallic alloys; metalloids and nonmetals; carbides, silicides, nitrides, phosphides)
A : Metals and Intermetallic Alloys
B : Zinc-brass family
Dana 7th edition ID:1.1.36.1
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Physical Properties of Titanium

Lustre:Metallic
Diaphaneity (Transparency):Opaque
Colour:Silver-grey
Streak:Black
Hardness (Mohs):4

Crystallography of Titanium

Crystal System:Hexagonal

Chemical Properties of Titanium

Formula:
Ti
Essential elements:Ti
All elements listed in formula:Ti

Relationship of Titanium to other Species

Related Minerals - Nickel-Strunz Grouping):

- +
1.AB.05Cadmium
Cd
1.AB.05Rhenium
Re
1.AB.05Zinc
Zn
1.AB.10bDanbaite
CuZn
 
2
1.AB.10aZhanghengite
CuZn
1.AB.10aBrass
Cu
 
3
Zn
1.AB.10bTongxinite
Cu
 
2
Zn
1.AB.10aZinccopperite
Cu
 
7
Zn
 
4
 (?)
1.AB.10UM2003-03-E:AgAuCuZn
(Cu,Au,Ag)
 
4
Zn
1.AB.10UM1980-01-E:CuZn
Cu
 
3
Zn
1.AB.10UM1980-02-E:CuZn
Cu
 
4.45
Zn

Other Names for Titanium

Synonyms:
Titan
Other Languages:
Russian:Титан
Varieties:
Tetragonal Titanium

Other Information

Health Warning:No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care.

References for Titanium

Reference List:American Mineralogist (1991): 76: 1435.

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    Localities for Titanium

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    China
     
    • Hubei Province
      • Huanggang Prefecture
        • Yingshan Co.
    		[var: Tetragonal Titanium] [AmMin 65:198]
    • Tibet Autonomous Region
      • Shannan (Lhokha; Lhoka) Prefecture
        • Qusum (Qusong) Co.
    		http://www.ngu.no/FileArchive/165/2003_055.pdf
    Russia
     
    • Eastern-Siberian Region
      • Prebaikalia (Pribaikal'e)
        • Irkutskaya Oblast'
          • Bodaibo
            • Lena Gold District
              • Kropotkinsky ore cluster
    		http://www.igem.ru/igem/chem/pt/sukhloge.htm
    • Far-Eastern Region
      • Kamchatka Oblast'
        • Bezymyannyi Volcano
    		No reference listed
    No reference listed
      • Sakhalinskaya Oblast'
        • Kuril Islands
          • Iturup Island
    		http://maurice.strahlen.org/kurilles/kurilles.htm
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