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Titanium
Titaan – Titan – Titane – Titanio – チタン – Титан – 鈦
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Indo-European
Titanium Latin Germanic
Titaan AfrikaansTitan Danish Titan German Titanium English Titan Faroese Titaan Frisian (West) Titan Icelandic Titan Luxembourgish Titaan Dutch Titan Norwegian Titan Swedish Italic
Titanio AragoneseTitanu Aromanian Titaniu Asturian Titani Catalan Titanio Spanish Titane French Titani Friulian Titanio Galician Titanio Italian Titàni Lombard Titani Occitan Titânio Portuguese Titan Romanian - Moldovan Slavic
Титан [Titan] BulgarianTitanij[um] Bosnian Тытан [tytan] Belarusian Titan Czech Titanij Croatian Titan Kashubian Титан [Titan] Macedonian Tytan Polish Титан [Titan] Russian Titán Slovak Titan Slovenian Титан [Titan] Serbian Титан [tytan] Ukrainian Baltic
Titanas LithuanianTitāns Latvian Titans Samogitian Celtic
Titan BretonTitaniwm Welsh Tíotáiniam Gaelic (Irish) Tìotainiam Gaelic (Scottish) Çhitaanium Gaelic (Manx) Tytanyum Cornish Other Indo-European
Τιτανιο [titanio] GreekՏիտան [titan] Armenian Titan[i] Albanian Indo-Iranian/Iranian
Tîtanyûm KurdishТитан [titan] Ossetian Титан [Titan] Tajik Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan
টাইটেনিয়াম [ṭāiṭeniẏāma] Bengaliتیتانیم [tytanym] Persian ટાઇટેનિયમનો [ṭāiṭeniyamano] Gujarati टाइटानियम [ṭāiṭāniyama] Hindi Finno-Ugric
Titaan EstonianTitaani Finnish Titán Hungarian Титан [Titan] Komi Титан [Titan] Mari Титан [titan] Moksha Titaan Võro Altaic
Titan AzerbaijaniТитан [Titan] Chuvash Титан [titan] Kazakh Титан [Titan] Kyrgyz Титан [titan] Mongolian Titan Turkish تىتان [titan] Uyghur Titan Uzbek Other (Europe)
Titanioa Basqueტიტანი [titani] Georgian Afro-Asiatic
تيتانيوم [tītāniyūm] Arabicטיטניום [titanium] Hebrew Titanju[m] Maltese Sino-Tibetan
Thai (鈦) Hakkaチタン [chitan] Japanese 타이타늄, 타타늄, 타탄 [ta'itanyum, titanyum, titan] Korean ไทเทเนียม [thaitēniam] Thai Titan Vietnamese 鈦 [tai4 / taai3] Chinese Malayo-Polynesian
Titanyo CebuanoTitanium Indonesian Titanium Māori Titanium Malay Other Asiatic
ടൈറ്റാനിയം [ṭaiṟṟāniyam] Malayalamடைட்டேனியம் [ţaiţţēṉiyam] Tamil Africa
Titani LingalaTitaniamo Sesotho Titani Swahili North-America
Titanio NahuatlSouth-America
Titanyu QuechuaCreole
Titanimi Sranan TongoArtificial
Titano EsperantoNew names
Titanion Atomic ElementsNinthium Dorseyville |
History & Etymology
The mineral was named menachanite (or ilmenite), the new earth in it was regarded as the oxide of a new metal, menachin. Mineral and metal were after the spot where it was found. The discovery received no acclaim but when Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817) separated rutile, or red schörl, from Hungary in 1795, he recognized the similarity to Gregor's menachan. He reported (note): "that menachanite has for its constituent parts Iron, and a peculiar metallic oxide of an unknown nature. By the following examination it will appear that this substance, which besides iron, forms the second chief component principle of menachanite, is precisely the very same which constitutes the Hungarian red schörl."Klaproth gave the following curious reason for naming the new element Titanium:
Chemistianity 1873
EMYAN
TITANIUM, the Air absorbing Metalloid, Whose Nitrogen compounds in copper-colour'd cubes, Are found in certain kinds of Iron Slag, In the free state is known only in gray powder, With chemical properties much like Tin. Further reading
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