Titanium oxide
Titanium oxide may refer to:[1]
- Titanium dioxide (titanium(IV) oxide), TiO2
- Titanium(II) oxide (titanium monoxide), TiO, a non-stoichiometric oxide
- Titanium(III) oxide (dititanium trioxide), Ti2O3
- Ti3O
- Ti2O
- δ-TiOx (x= 0.68 - 0.75)
- TinO2n−1 where n ranges from 3–9 inclusive,[2] e.g. Ti3O5, Ti4O7, etc.
Uses
Often used as an active ingredient in sunscreens combined with oxybenzone and octyl methoxycinnamate.[3]
Also used in making of vehicle exhaust pipes due to its aesthetic value of the purple color.
References
- ↑ Wells A.F. (1984) Structural Inorganic Chemistry 5th edition Oxford Science Publications ISBN 0-19-855370-6
- ↑ Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 0-08-037941-9.
- ↑ Serpone N, Salinaro A, Emeline AV, Horikoshi S, Hidaka H, Zhao JC. 2002. An in vitro systematic spectroscopic examination of the photostabilities of a random set of commercial sunscreen lotions and their chemical UVB/UVA active agents. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 1(12): 970-981.
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