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1761–1817
William Gregor
Discovered titanium in 1791.
Element
22TiTitanium
1791
In 1791 William Gregor, a Cornish vicar, analysed a black sand from his parish and found the oxide of an unknown metal. Four years later Martin Heinrich Klaproth found the same metal in a Hungarian ore and named it titanium, after the Titans.
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- William GregorEncyclopaedia Britannica
- TitaniumRoyal Society of Chemistry
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