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 | | At around the same time, Franz Joseph Muller also produced a similar substance, but could not identify it. |
 | | The element was independently rediscovered several years later by German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth in rutile ore. Klaproth confirmed it as a new element and in 1795 he named it for the Latin word for Earth (also the name for the Titans of Greek mythology). |
 | | Although Titanium metal is relatively uncommon, Due to the cost of extraction, titanium dioxide (also called titanium(IV), Titanium white, or even titania) is cheap, nontoxic, readily available in bulk, and very widely used as a white pigment in paint, enamel, lacquer, plastic and construction cement. |
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