THE HISTORY OF TITANIUM METAL

The origin of titanium is said to be named after the Greek giant Titan, but when titanium was first discovered, it was called menachanite.

It was Gregor, a British priest, who first discovered titanium as a metal in 1791.

Gregor discovered non-iron oxides in magnetic black iron sand from the coastal beaches of the Cornwall region. He named it menachanite after his place of discovery and posted it in an academic journal for the first time in the world of titanium.

Four years later, in 1795, German scientist Klaproth discovered a previously unknown metal oxide in most of the Hungarian rutile ore. At that time, he named the substance "titanium" after the Greek mythological Titan.

However, the titanium discovered by Gregor and Klaproth did not reduce and extract metallic titanium from titanium oxide, just by separating the titanium oxide from oxides such as iron from sand iron and rutile ore. ..

It has been more than 150 years since its discovery in 1950 when metallic titanium was actually extracted and its properties could be confirmed, and metallic titanium became industrially available.