Titanium Strategically Important Metal Loses Appeal

From toothbrushes to airframes, jet engines to spectacles golf clubs, to replacement joints in humans, and not to forget its growing use in fashionable jewelry, new uses for titanium seem to constantly hit the headlines.

Despite the versatility of this extraordinary metal, global recession has taken its toll on the price. Read more

What Exactly Is Titanium?

Titanium is arguably the most interesting and versatile of all metals.
It is the ninth most plentiful element in the Earths’ crust and the fifth most common metal.
Titanium is a hard silvery colored, non-magnetic, corrosion resistant, lightweight and durable metal

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Cement Neutralizes Pollutants

There are  reports that an Italian company, Italcementia has developed a cement enhanced with titanium oxide that can neutralize some harmful pollutants when exposed to sunlight or ultraviolet light.

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Who Produces Titanium?

Titanium is always found as a compound with other elements.

Despite being the ninth most plentiful element on the Earths’ surface and is distributed all over the world there are few concentrated deposits that make commercial extraction viable.

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Who Discovered Titanium?

Reverend William Gregor

An amateur geologist and rector of Creed in Cornwall, England, is credited as the discoverer of Titanium in 1791.

Educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he won academic honors in classics and mathematics and also became deeply interested in chemistry and mineralogy.

He carried out a series of experiments on some sand originating from nearby Manaccan in Cornwall and when melted with an alkali he noted the residue had a metallic sheen that was non magnetic.

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Titanium Properties

• Titanium is a metal having the chemical symbol is Ti. It is one of the Platinum Group Metals (PGMs)
• It is the ninth most plentiful element on our planet. It is present in meteorites and been detected in class M planets and our sun. Apollo 17 returned from the moon with rock samples containing Titanium compounds.
• It has a silvery white metallic lustre when pure.
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The Many Uses Of Titanium

The production of commercial quantities of Titanium is an expensive and complicated process and has only been possible for the last sixty odd years.

Nevertheless, in what is a relatively short space of time, many highly sophisticated and technical advances have been made in aviation, marine, medicine, electronics, space travel, paints and decorative materials and numerous other fields due to the unique properties of Titanium, Titanium alloys, Titanium compounds and Titanium coated metals.

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Yet Another New Application For Titanium

Hardly a week goes by without reading about yet another new application for Titanium, Titanium alloys or Titanium Oxide.

Just to remind our readers that titanium is corrosion resistant, as strong as steel and nearly half the weight and is not rejected by the human body.

These properties have caused the price of the metal to more than double since 2005 as demand has increased in the industrial, chemical, medical, energy, and electronic sectors. It is also becoming increasingly popular in the jewelry trade.

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