How to Detect Titanium Fast & Easy Titanium (Ti): • Specific gravity: 4.2 • Main ore: Rutile (TiO2), which can be red, reddish-brown, yellowish-brown, or black. • Streak color: Light brown. • Note: It cannot be melted with a blowpipe. How to detect titanium: • Take a small amount of powdered ore. • Mix it with 5 times its weight of sodium carbonate. • Heat the mixture on a platinum wire to make small beads. • Crush these beads and add a small amount of dilute sulfuric acid (1 part acid 3 parts w