TITANIUM OXIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does titanium oxide mean? 

• TITANIUM OXIDE (noun)
  The noun TITANIUM OXIDE has 1 sense:

1. a white powder used as a pigment for its high covering power and durability

  Familiarity information: TITANIUM OXIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TITANIUM OXIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A white powder used as a pigment for its high covering power and durability

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

titania; titanic oxide; titanium dioxide; titanium oxide

Hypernyms ("titanium oxide" is a kind of...):

oxide (any compound of oxygen with another element or a radical)

pigment (dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.))

 Context examples 

This new information about the presence of metal oxides like titanium oxide and other substances will allow much better modeling of exoplanet atmospheres.

(Inferno World with Titanium Skies, ESO)

The researchers layered the elements one atomic plane at a time so sheets of titanium oxide one-atom thick transferred an electron to sheets of cobalt oxide with the same thickness.

(Picoscience and a plethora of new materials, National Science Foundation)

Without the titanium oxide gas to absorb incoming starlight on the daytime side, the atmospheric temperature grows colder with increasing altitude.

(Hubble Observes Exoplanet that Snows Sunscreen, NASA)

For the handful of exoplanets with stratospheres, the absorber is typically thought to be a molecule such as titanium oxide, a close relative of titanium dioxide, used on Earth as a paint pigment and sunscreen ingredient.

(WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water, NASA)

Previous detections of clouds by Hubble at the boundary between day and night, where temperatures mercifully fall, have shown that titanium oxide (popular as a sunscreen) and aluminum oxide (the basis for ruby, the gemstone) could also be molecularly reborn on the ultrahot Jupiters' nightsides.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

Titanium oxide is rarely seen on Earth.

(Inferno World with Titanium Skies, ESO)

Normally, titanium oxide in the atmospheres of hot Jupiters absorbs light and reradiates it as heat, making the atmosphere grow warmer at higher altitudes.

(Hubble Observes Exoplanet that Snows Sunscreen, NASA)

The presence of titanium oxide in the atmosphere of WASP-19b can have substantial effects on the atmospheric temperature structure and circulation.

(Inferno World with Titanium Skies, ESO)

Kepler-13Ab's strong surface gravity — six times greater than Jupiter's — pulls the titanium oxide snow out of the upper atmosphere and traps it in the lower atmosphere.

(Hubble Observes Exoplanet that Snows Sunscreen, NASA)

By using the FORS2 instrument on the Very Large Telescope the team was able to carefully analyse this light and deduce that the atmosphere contained small amounts of titanium oxide, water and traces of sodium, alongside a strongly scattering global haze.

(Inferno World with Titanium Skies, ESO)