How to Use titanium dioxide in a Sentence

titanium dioxide

noun

• Even M&Ms, which are also sold by Mars Inc., do not use titanium dioxide, the lawsuit says.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
• The European Commission will ban titanium dioxide, also known as E171, by the end of the year.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
• The first version of the bill also proposed a ban on titanium dioxide, but the substance was not included in the version that passed the state Senate by a 33-3 vote on Monday.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• The purpose of the catalyst, titanium dioxide in this case, is to react with the micropollutants and help remove them in the process.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2023
• The ingredients to look for to find those products are zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, Burns said.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 5 May 2022
• Even so, by 1570, the Inca had stopped using titanium dioxide.
  — Adam Rogers, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2021
• Twin Pines wants to mine titanium dioxide that is primarily used to produce white pigment for paints and paper.
  — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2020
• Preferably the sunscreen should contain physical blockers such as zinc and/or titanium dioxide and an SPF of at least 30.
  — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 14 Mar. 2017
• And more than 98% of that money came from a single division: the titanium dioxide business that makes paint and ceramics pigments.
  — Tatyana Shumsky, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2017
• Zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are mineral sunscreen agents to look out for.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 11 June 2024
• To reap the benefits of broad-spectrum SPF 50, ceramides, and hyaluronic acid, glide on this zinc and titanium dioxide-powered sunscreen anytime.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2022
• The researchers’ next step is more complete real-world testing at Iowa pig farms, including coating barn ceilings and walls with the titanium dioxide and hitting it with black light.
  — Andrew Amelinckx, Smithsonian, 27 Oct. 2017
• The titanium dioxide that Twin Pines Minerals wants to mine is primarily used to produce white pigment for paints and paper.
  — Washington Post, 19 July 2019
• Shoppers with darker skin tones should avoid mineral sunscreens with zinc oxide or titanium dioxide, which can leave behind a gray or ashen film.
  — Nia Decaille, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2020
• Travelers instead may use reef-safe sunscreens made with minerals such as zinc oxide and titanium dioxide (here’s a list of hundreds of coral-safe sunscreens to try).
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• Skittles, a popular candy in the US, contain titanium dioxide for better color and longer shelf life.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 30 May 2023
• Combined with the trap’s UV light, the titanium dioxide coating produces a carbon dioxide trail that impersonates human breath to lure flying insects to the trap.
  — Kate Oczypok, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Oct. 2023
• Are there better ways to evaluate titanium dioxide in food?
  — Sam Jones, Scientific American, 29 July 2022
• For a range of ultraviolet wavelengths, the lens — made of a stack of silver and titanium dioxide layers — has a refractive index of -1, roughly equal and opposite to that of air.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2013
• And the dye will then absorb the photons, excite electrons that are injected into the titanium dioxide layer and then collected by the anode and then conducted out to the cable.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
• The nanoparticles in sunscreen, for example, are made of zinc oxide or titanium dioxide.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2012
• Mineral sunscreens rely on zinc oxide or titanium dioxide to block or reflect the rays.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
• This one is in an ultra-hydrating gel formula (backed by hyaluronic acid and squalane), and uses a mineral, titanium dioxide, for its SPF 30 shield.
  — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2022
• His team tested substances such as titanium dioxide and calcium carbonate and made a cooling but less reflective paint out of the latter last year.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 21 May 2021
• There are a number of very good, new options that have evolved the more primitive zinc and titanium dioxide formulas that were notorious for leaving behind a white cast.
  — Celia Ellenberg, Vogue, 2 June 2021
• An original version of that bill included titanium dioxide, which is found in Skittles, but it was amended in the Senate and taken out of the legislation.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2024
• Decades ago, the sunscreens that Americans were dabbing on their noses were often mineral concoctions, like zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, that sat on the skin in a thick white cream and physically blocked the sun’s rays.
  — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 23 July 2019
• Interest in the concept has soared ever since a team of HP researchers succeeded in developing a memristor based on a thin film of titanium dioxide in 2008.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 May 2012
• The maker of titanium dioxide pigment posted revenue of $458.6 million in the period.
  — Dallas News, 6 Nov. 2020
• Chemical sunscreens contain ingredients that absorb UV rays while mineral sunscreens rely on zinc oxide or titanium dioxide to block or reflect the rays.
  — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024