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Who gave titanium its name?

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A periodic table element tile for titanium displays its atomic number 22, symbol Ti, atomic weight 47.867, electron configuration, and name. Icons indicate it is a solid, transition metal with a hexagonal crystal structure and equal relative strength. — titanium Properties of titanium.

The German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth gave titanium its name.12

While the element's ore was first discovered in 1791 by the English clergyman William Gregor, it was Klaproth who identified the oxide a few years later and named the metal constituent "titanium" after the Titans, the giants of Greek mythology.1