titanium

See also: Titanium

English

Chemical element
Ti
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Etymology

From Titan +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tītā'nēəm, IPA^(key): /taɪˈteɪni.əm/; enPR: tĭtā'nēəm, IPA^(key): /tɪˈteɪni.əm/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪniəm

Noun

titanium (countable and uncountable, plural titaniums)

2. A chemical element, atomic number 22; it is a strong, corrosion-resistant transition metal, used to make light alloys for aircraft etc.
3. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

• cuprotitanium
• ferrocarbon titanium
• ferrotitanium
• manganotitanium
• titanian
• titanic
• titaniferous
• titanious
• titanium-46
• titanium-47
• titanium-48
• titanium-49
• titanium-50
• titanium alloy
• titanium aluminide
• titanium boride
• titanium bromide
• titanium carbide
• titanium chloride
• titanium dichloride
• titanium dioxide
• titanium hydride
• titanium isopropoxide
• titanium nitride
• titanium oxalate
• titanium oxide
• titanium sand
• titanium sponge
• titanium suboxide
• titanium sulfate
• titanium tetrabromide
• titanium tetrachloride
• titanium tetraiodide
• titanium trichloride
• titanium trioxide
• titanium white
• titanoan

 

Related terms

• titan-, titano-
• titanate
• titania
• titanic
• titanite
• titanocene

 

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: titaan (af)
• Albanian: titan (sq) ?
• Arabic: تِيتَانْيُوم m (titanyum)
• Armenian: տիտան (hy) (titan)
• Asturian: titaniu (ast) m
• Basque: titanioa
• Belarusian: тыта́н m (tytán)
• Breton: titan ?
• Bulgarian: тита́н (bg) m (titán)
• Catalan: titani (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鈦／钛 (zh) (tài), 钛 (zh) (tài)

• Cornish: tytanyum ?
• Czech: titan (cs) m
• Danish: titan (da) n
• Dutch: titanium (nl) n, titaan (nl) n
• Esperanto: titanio
• Estonian: titaan (et)
• Faroese: titan n
• Finnish: titaani (fi)
• French: titane (fr) m
• Friulian: titani ?
• Galician: titanio (gl) m
• Georgian: ტიტანი (ṭiṭani)
• German: Titan (de) n
• Greek: τιτάνιο (el) n (titánio)
• Hawaiian: kaikaniuma
• Hebrew: טיטניום (he) ? (titánium)
• Hindi: रंजातु ? (rañjātu)
• Hungarian: titán (hu)
• Icelandic: títan (is) n
• Interlingua: titanium
• Irish: tíotáiniam (ga) m
• Italian: titanio (it) m
• Japanese: チタン (ja) (chitan), チタニウム (chitaniumu)
• Kashubian: titan
• Kazakh: титан (titan)
• Khmer: ទីតាន (tiitaan)
• Korean: 티탄 (ko) (titan), 티타늄 (ko) (titanyum)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: titanium (la) n
• Latvian: titāns ?
• Lingala: titani class 9a/10a
• Lithuanian: titanas (lt) ?
• Luxembourgish: Titan ?
• Macedonian: тита́н m (titán)
• Malay: titanium
• Maltese: titanju ?
• Manx: çhitaanium ?
• Mongolian: титан (mn) (titan)
• Navajo: béésh doo ńdiniichxíihii
• Norwegian: titan (no) ?
• Occitan: titani m
• Polish: tytan (pl) m
• Portuguese: titânio (pt) m
• Romanian: titan (ro) n
• Russian: тита́н (ru) m (titán)
• Scottish Gaelic: titanium m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: титан m, титаниј m

  Roman: titan (sh) m, titanij (sh) m

• Slovak: titán (sk) m
• Slovene: titan (sl) m
• Spanish: titanio (es) m
• Swahili: titani
• Swedish: titan (sv) n
• Tajik: титан (titan)
• Tamil: டைட்டேனியம் (ta) (ṭaiṭṭēṉiyam)
• Telugu: టైటానియం (te) (ṭaiṭāniyaṁ)
• Thai: ไทเทเนียม (th) (tai-tee-nîiam)
• Turkish: titan (tr), titanyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: тита́н m (tytán)
• Urdu: رنجاتو‎ ? (rañjātu)
• Uzbek: titan (uz), титан (uz) (titan)
• Vietnamese: titan (vi)
• Volapük: titanin (vo), (older term) tütin
• Welsh: titaniwm (cy) m
• West Frisian: titaan ?

See also

• anatase
• brookite
• ilmenite
• perovskite
• rutile
• sphene

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Titanium”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “titanium”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

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Danish

Noun

titanium (singular definite ?, plural indefinite titanium)

1. titanium

Declension

Declension of titanium

neuter gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	titanium	titaniummet
genitive	titaniums	titaniummets

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Dutch

Chemical element
Ti
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Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

titanium n (uncountable)

1. titanium

   Synonym: titaan

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Latin

Etymology

Coined in 1791 by chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth, derived from Tītān (“Titan”) +‎ -ium (chemical element suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tiːˈtaː.ni.um/, [t̪iːˈt̪äːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tiˈta.ni.um/, [t̪iˈt̪äːnium]

Noun

tītānium n (genitive tītāniī); second declension

1. (New Latin) titanium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tītānium	tītānia
Genitive	tītāniī	tītāniōrum
Dative	tītāniō	tītāniīs
Accusative	tītānium	tītānia
Ablative	tītāniō	tītāniīs
Vocative	tītānium	tītānia

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ti˧ˈcaː˨ɲɔ˧m]

Noun

titanium n

1. (uncountable) titanium
2. A part of titanium

Inflection

Declension of titanium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	titanium	titania	titanieke	titaniekes
Genitive	titaniums	titania	titaniekes	titaniekes
Locative	titanieës	titanieëser	titanieëske	titanieëskes
Dative¹	titaniumme	—	titanieke	—
Accusative¹	titanium	—	titanieke	—
¹Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

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Malay

Chemical element
Ti
Previous: skandium (Sc)
Next: vanadium (V)

Etymology

From English titanium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [titaniom], [titani.əm], [tai̯teni.əm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

titanium

1. titanium (chemical element)