Description

Physical Properties

     Titanium is a hard, lightweight, silver  metal which can have a couple different looks to it.  One of these is a dark gray powder, shown on the left side.  It can also come as a dark gray metal, or a bright metal.  Titanium can be very breakable and weak at cold temperatures, but the reason it is considered to be a strong metal is because when either oxygen or nitrogen are added to it, it makes the metal much stronger.  Titanium is as strong as steel, but it is 45% lighter, it is 60% heavier than aluminum but it is twice as strong.  It is very resistant to corrosion and erosion compared to all other metals.   The other pictures are when Titanium is mixed with something, this is said under the picture.  

Chemical Properties

    
    Titanium is usually a non reactive metal, however it can react with some things such as different potassium compounds shown in the pictures below.  It also is the only element to react with nitrogen, but it does not react with much else.  

reaction between titanium metal and potassium                  

perchlorate (KClO₄).                 

Adding titanium powder to a burning     

mixture of potassium chlorate and sucrose.

Igniting a mixture of titanium powder and potassium 

per chlorate (KClO₄).

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