• Question: What happens if you put titanium in chlorine?

    Asked by anon-197431 to Sonal, Rosanna, Matthew, Marleen, Dan, Atreya on 4 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Sonal Bhadane

      Sonal Bhadane answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      Not my field of expertise at all but does it form Titanium chloride?
      Any Chem majors in the group perhaps can answer this : )

    • Photo: Matthew Selwood

      Matthew Selwood answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I think Sonal is right – it looks like it will make Titanium Chloride. From looking up a quick video, it doesn’t look like the most exciting reaction!

      Ti + 2Cl2 → TiCl4 [source: chemiday.com/en/reaction/3-1-0-12314]

    • Photo: Marleen Wilde

      Marleen Wilde answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      I would need to find a real chemist in my department to answer that, but chemistry doesn’t seem to be the most popular science anymore.

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