# Chlorine and Titanium

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/chlorine-and-titanium/

[Chlorine](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/chlorine/) (chemical) and [Titanium](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/titanium/) (commodity): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: process input

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

Titanium ores are chlorinated to titanium tetrachloride before reduction, and the chlorine is recycled along with the magnesium. The alkalis and chlorine index correlates with the titanium proxy at 0.17 monthly and 0.42 in the last five years.

- **0.17** monthly change correlation
- **0.29** 12-month change correlation
- **-0.08** fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.