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Abstract
Titanium, because of its light weight, high specific strength, corrosion resistance and biocompatibility is a demanding material for aerospace, chemical processing industries and biomedical applications. Titanium powders produced from titanium sponge, hydride-dehydride processes and by a variety of centrifugal atomisation techniques from liquid metals are relatively coarse. If fine size titanium powders can be produced, then the grain size in the sintered titanium will be small thereby contributing to the high strength of the product. In the present investigation, an attempt has been made to synthesize fine titanium powders from titanium dioxide. The later is allowed to form a complex, titanium catecholate, in the presence of ammonium sulphate and concentrated sulphuric acid. The complex is filtered, washed with cold isopropyl alcohol and dried. Titanium hydride is prepared by heating the titanium catecholate in the temperature range 500-600°C in hydrogen atmosphere. The powder obtained is crushed ground and reheated at temperatures upto 950°C in vacuum. The product is rapidly cooled from this temperature to obtain titanium powders. The powder characteristics such as particle size and crystallization have been evaluated and these results are reported and discussed.