Ilmenite

Ilmenite concentrate is used in production of synthetic rutile, pigment titanium dioxide, welding electrodes, titanium sponge, metal titanium and in steelmaking furnaces.
Titanium can also form many compounds, they also have a variety of special properties and uses, such as titanium dioxide, is a white powder, it is the best white pigment, commonly known as "titanium white", 1 gram of titanium dioxide can be more than 450 square centimeters of the area painted white. Titanium dioxide used as white pigment in the world is more than hundreds of thousands of tons a year. If titanium dioxide is added to the paper, it can make the paper white and opaque, so the paper used in the manufacture of banknotes and fine arts is sometimes added to titanium dioxide, in addition, in order to make the color of the plastic lighter and make the rayon luster soft, it is sometimes added to titanium dioxide. Titanium dioxide is known as the whitest thing in the world. Most of the titanium in nature is in a dispersed state, mainly forming minerals ilmenite TeTiO3 and rutile TiO2, and vanadilmenite.