Titanium And Phosphorus: Similarities And Differences

Titanium and Phosphorus

Some elements in the periodic table are vital to human life. They are helpful for the making of many different items. Consequently, without them, we wouldn’t have many of the objects we have now. Titanium and Phosphorus are examples of these important elements. Titanium is an element known for its strength and is part of the transition metals family, which includes the metals from group 3-12. Phosphorus, on the other hand, is an element known for its abundance in the human body and is part of the Nitrogen family that includes the elements in group 15. Since elements with similar properties or characteristics are placed in the same group, elements from different groups have many differences but can share some similarities.

One very important difference is that Titanium has a very slow rate of corrosion that seawater can corrode it to the thickness of a thin paper in 4,00 years. However, as included in Quora, “...corrosion only happens in metals” (Rahman Asad, 2015). This means that Phosphorus has no corrosion rate as opposed to Titanium. Moreover, Titanium and Phosphorus have many differences in their solubleness and ability to rust. Titanium is soluble in concentrated acids and it is able to rust. However, Phosphorus is soluble in Phosphorus Disulfide and is not able to rust. Not only do they differ at these properties, but they also have different atomic radii, electronegativity, and electron configuration. On one hand, Titanium’s atomic radius, or the size of its atom is 215 pm. Its electronegativity, or the “... measure of the tendency of an atom to attract a bonding pair of electrons,” (Clark Jim, 2013), is 1.54. Titanium’s electron configuration, or as written in Lenntech.com, is a description of the arrangement of electrons in circles around the core, is [Ar] 3d2 4s2. On the other hand, Phosphorus has an atomic radius of 1.95 pm, its electronegativity is 2.19 and its electron configuration is 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p3. Despite these differences, they share seven known similarities. These include them being insoluble in water, flammable, combustible, having the ability to easily react with the Halogen family, not being toxic, both are able to easily react with oxygen and lastly, both elements are quite reactive. Moreover, these two elements also have differences and similarities in their uses in everyday