Titanium carbide
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Titanium carbide, TiC, is an extremely hard (Mohs 9–9.5) refractory ceramic material, similar to tungsten carbide. It has the appearance of black powder with the sodium chloride (face-centered cubic) crystal structure.
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IUPAC name
titanium carbide | |
Other names
titanium(IV) carbide | |
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ECHA InfoCard | 100.031.916 |
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TiC | |
Molar mass | 59.89 g/mol |
Appearance | black powder |
Density | 4.93 g/cm3 |
Melting point | 3,160 °C (5,720 °F; 3,430 K) |
Boiling point | 4,820 °C (8,710 °F; 5,090 K) |
insoluble in water | |
+8.0·10−6 cm3/mol | |
Structure | |
Cubic, cF8 | |
Fm3m, No. 225 | |
Octahedral | |
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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It occurs in nature as a form of the very rare mineral khamrabaevite (Russian: Хамрабаевит) - (Ti,V,Fe)C. It was discovered in 1984 on Mount Arashan in the Chatkal District,[1] USSR (modern Kyrgyzstan), near the Uzbek border. The mineral was named after Ibragim Khamrabaevich Khamrabaev, director of Geology and Geophysics of Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Its crystals as found in nature range in size from 0.1 to 0.3 mm.