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Is Titanium magnetic? and how can it be detected? | |
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From: Neil Lowrie
No, titanium in non-magnetic. How it can be detected depends on where it is located!
From: chemistrystudent
Ok - how could anyone think it was magnetic? Everyone knows that only iron, cobalt, nickel and various compounds of these elements are magnetic!
Titanium is detected, for example, in a lump of rock (or ore) by taking a tiny sample and putting it through a mass spectrometer. The sample is vapourised and the vapour passes through an electron beam, which charges some of the molecules. This is called 'Ionisation'. Then, the flow of charged particles is sped up by oppositly-charged plates. This is called 'Acceleration'. The ions are passed through a magnetic field generated by an electromagnet on the mass spec. and as any flow of charged particles is a current, the current of ions obeys Flemming's left hand rule (a charge in a magnetic field is moved) and the flow is shifted. This is called 'Deflection'. The magnetic field is increased (different elments are moved by the field at different values, as they weigh less) and the particles are detected by a plate at the end of the mass spec. This is called 'Detection' A graph is produced, and if the atomic mass of titanium isotopes is detcted, Titanium is present.
I hope that this answers your question.
From: titanium_leg
no it is not .... i have a titanium rod in my leg and work with BIG STRONG magnets all day no problems.
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