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Usually titanium is made by taking the ore Ilmenite and reacting with chlorine. This produces TiCl4 and by products. This product is known in the industry as Tickel Four.

This TiCl4 is very volatile and is now purified by distillation. Then it is reacted with Sodium metal to produce titanium sponge.

TiCl4 + 4Na -----> 4NaCl + Ti.

So the raw materials are Ilmenite, chlorine and sodium metal.

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Titanium IS a pure material, it's in the Periodic Table. You really can't make other materials out of it. Best you can do is to use some of it in metal alloys containing titanium.

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Titanium is a Transition metal found in groups 3-12.

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titanium is a material dumb butt

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