titanization

English

Etymology

From titanize +‎ -ation.

Noun

titanization (countable and uncountable, plural titanizations)

1. The process of coating with titanium.
   • 1991, K. Hattori, C.J. Hodgson, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 2160, page 24:

     Hematitization and titanization suggest the hydrothermal fluids were oxidixing, which in turn reflects the oxidized nature of the parent magmas.

   • 1992, Mario L. Occelli, Harry E. Robson, Synthesis of Microporous Materials: Molecular sieves, →ISBN, page 184:

     The literature claims of titanization at 370 °C (Whittington and Anderson 1991) and of dealumination of H-[Al]-MFI followed by titanization at 400 or 500 °C (Kraushaar and van Hooff 1988) should perhaps be restudied as the observed catalytic activity may be due to outer surface titanium.

   • 2005, Fusion Nucléaire - Volume 45, Issues 7-9, page 691:

     During the first 60 discharges when the toroidal limiter is covered by the boron film, the wall can either pump or release a large amount of H and/or D, outside the operator control, depending on the degree of saturation of the surfaces facing the plasma as was previously observed after titanization [12].

2. The act of making or depicting as titanic.
   • 1979, Robert B. Pynsent, Czech prose and verse: a selection with an introductory essay, page lvii:

     Among his earliest plays is the cumbersome Jánosvík (perf. 1910), where Mahen attempts a down-to-earth titanization (sic) of the Slovak national hero, Jánosvík; he tries to make him nearer what he was in history than, say, Ján Botto in his Smrt. Jánosvíkova, without removing the aura which had accrued around him in the Slovak tradition.

   • 1988, Wole Soyinka, Art, dialogue, and outrage: essays on literature and culture, page 132:

     If we were content to occupy ourselves with culture in the purely historic-artistic sense, there would be equally viable but inert examples to choose from: from Ola Rotimi to Cheik N'Dao's dramatizations of historic events; the various modern renditions of the Soundiata epic; the poeticization, deification, titanization of the remarkable Shaka by authors from the novelist Thomas Mofolo to the poet Leopold Senghor; the solemn to irreverent evocators of the past - Chinua Achebe, Mongo Beti, Daniachew Worku, Jomo Kenyatta, Hampate Bà, Camara Laye, etc.

   • 2012, R. Griffin, Terrorist's Creed: Fanatical Violence and the Human Need for Meaning, →ISBN:

     The ecstatic Titanization which can accompany heroic doubling is the subjective experience of becoming 'a new and self-born man within an apparatus which strips [the individual] of his ego boundaries'.