Abstract A method for producing titanium carbide with the use of charcoal, vegetable oil, and titanium dioxide powder as initial reagents is described. A feature of this method is that it is implemented in a hollow cathode direct current arc discharge with the effect of shielding the reaction volume from atmospheric oxygen by gases generated in the arc discharge. The possibility of obtaining a synthesis product consisting of a graphite phase and a cubic phase of titanium carbide is shown. In this case, according to scanning electron microscopy data, microsized objects were identified in the synthesis product, the morphology of which corresponded to the structure of charcoal, and the chemical composition, together with X-ray diffraction data, indicated the presence of a titanium carbide phase.
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