Interaction | Reaction | Process     Data Page

At high temperature, titanium reacts with carbon to give titanium carbide.

For this reason, titanium dioxide cannot be reduced to titanium metal and carbon monoxide with carbon, and TiC impurities in metallic titanium make it very brittle.
Ti
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Titanium     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Carbon     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Titanium(IV) carbide     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming

Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
British A-Level Chemistry: AS
Oxidation: Of Substrate By Reagent
Redox

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