Titanium

  Located in Group 4 and Period 4 in the Periodic Table is the element that is found in almost every living things. This is Titanium. First discovered in 1791 by William Gregor in Cornwall, Great Britain. Gregor analyzed gun powder-like sand and found a reddish brown clay he could not identify. Four years later in Berlin, renowned chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth independently discovered the element in rutile. And Titanium got its wonderful name by Martin Heinrich Klaproth after the titans of Greek mythology. William Gregor Its ores are rutile and ilmenite and they can be found in the Earth's crust and lithosphere as well as body of rocks, water and soils. Titanium can be alloyed with some metals such as iron , aluminium , vanadium and molybdenum  to produce strong, light alloys for aircraft, industries, medical instruments and dental instruments. Atomic Number : 22 Name : Titanium (1791) Latin Name : Titan (1791) Electrons per shell : [2, 8, 10, 2] Discoverer : William Gregor