Titanium

Titanium was originally discovered in 1791 by the English clergyman William Gregor in a mineral he called menachanite (known today as ilmenite (FeTiO₃)), and the element he called menachin, after the Menachan parish where it was found [11].

The element It was rediscovered in 1795 by the German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth, who called it titanium as it had no characteristic properties to use as a name. Titanium metal was first isolated in 1887 by the Swedish chemists Sven Otto Pettersson and Lars Fredrik Nilson in an impure form. Purified titanium was not obtained until 1910 by the American metallurgist Matthew A. Hunter [10].

From Latin titans, the first sons of the earth in Greek mythology [11].