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Titanium was discovered in 1791 by William Gregor, an English clergyman and mineralogist, while he was studying minerals in the black sands of Menachan in Cornwall, England. He identified the presence of a new element, which he initially named menachanite. Around the same time, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, a German chemist, also discovered this element independently in rutile, a mineral found in Hungary, and named it titanium after the Titans of Greek mythology. The naming by Klaproth is the one that stuck. It wasn't until 1910 that Matthew A. Hunter, working for General Electric in the USA, was able to produce pure titanium metal, marking the beginning of titanium's application in various industries due to its strong, lightweight characteristics and resistance to corrosion.
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