Are Titanium Dioxide and Zinc Oxide Minerals or Chemicals?

Answer: This is an excellent question and probably has others confused as well.  They can be considered both minerals and chemicals, actually!

Titanium Dioxide and Zinc Oxide as they are most commonly referred to, are physical sun blockers and are widely considered minerals in their purist form, yet to be thoroughly accurate, they are inorganic chemical compounds with varying chemical properties depending on which application they are used for.  The pure form of the chemical elements found in our periodic table,  Titanium (Dioxide) and Zinc (Ore “zincite” ) Oxide are typically known to create the chemical formulas of TiO2 and ZnO.

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