The invention specifically relates to
titanium carbide powder and a preparation method thereof. According to a technical scheme, the preparation method comprises the following steps of: uniformly mixing 10-25 percent by weight of aluminum
powder or
magnesium powder, 0.5-2 percent of amorphous
graphite powder or
carbon black, 5-20 percent by weight of
titanium dioxide and 60-80 percent by weight of a
halide of
lithium serving as raw materials; putting the uniformly-mixed raw materials into a tubular electric furnace, raising the temperature to 900-1,100 DEG C at the temperature raising rate of 2-8 DEG C per minute under the
atmosphere of
argon, and preserving heat for 1-5 hours; putting an obtained product into
hydrochloric acid of which the concentration is 2-4 mol / L for soaking for 3-6 hours, filtering, and cleaning with deionized water till the pH value of a cleaning solution is 7.0; and
drying at the temperature of 110 DEG C for 10-24 hours to obtain
titanium carbide powder. The method has the characteristics of low
reaction temperature, simple process, controllable synthesis process, low production cost, and the like; and the prepared
titanium carbide powder has the characteristics of high
crystallization, high product purity, freeness from an impure phase and powder particle size of 100-400 nanometers.