magnesium + titanium chloride magnesium chloride + titanium.
2Mg(l) + TiCl4(l) 2MgCl2(l) + Ti(s) sodium + titanium chloride sodium chloride + titanium.
4Na(l) + TiCl4(l) 4NaCl(l) + Ti(s)
- extracted from its ore-- rutile (TiO2) which consists mostly of TiO2 (titanium oxide), which is firstly converted into titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4) by heating with carbon and chlorine.
- magnesium or sodium is then used to convert it from titanium chloride to titanium metal
- this process is done