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Titanium Uses In Industry
espite the fact that the only just over half its weight
commercial production of and is twice as strong as
Titanium has only been aluminium.
possible in the last sixty years
and then only by a complex and Titanium based alloys have very
expensive process, it’s unique high strength-to-weight ratios.
properties have resulted in
advances in technology, aviation, Titanium is ductile, malleable,
marine, medicine and the many wieldable and easily worked.
other applications that we now
take for granted but may not have It is obtainable in a number of
been possible or be as efficient formats that include wire, sheet,
by using an alternative. rod, foil, granules, sponge and
powder.
A promising new development known
as the FFC Cambridge Process may It has an extremely low response
result in producing Titanium at a to magnetism.
lower cost than the original
Kroll process that is still in Titanium has a very low
use to this day. electrical resistivity and
thermal conductivity.
The Properties of Titanium
Titanium is highly corrosion
Titanium is a chemical element resistant, it is impervious to
with the symbol Ti. seawater, chlorine and a broad
range of acids, unless
It has a silvery white metallic concentrated, and alkalis.
lustre when pure.
Titanium burns in air and is one
It is as strong as steel but is of the very few elements to burn
in Nitrogen (it makes great used the metal and its’ alloys as
fireworks!) the principal material in the
construction of its submarine
The metal is physiologically fleet as it is impervious to
inert and non-toxic. i.e. it has seawater.
no effect on the human or animal
body. Russia made an attempt to corner
the market in Titanium to deprive
It is the ninth most plentiful the US and its allies of the
element present in the Earths material.
crust. It has been found in
meteorites and detected in the Titanium and its’ alloys are used
sun and class M stars. in the manufacture of armored
vehicles, military aircraft
Approximately 90% of worldwide including stealth planes, naval
usage is in the form of Titanium applications, ordnance and
alloys or Titanium compounds spacecraft.
Titanium Applications
Titanium Dioxide is widely used
The Apollo 17 moon mission in paint, paper, plastics,
brought back rocks containing toothpaste and cement for its
Titanium compounds. intense whiteness, permanency,
excellent covering properties and
Titanium Applications. the ability to add strength to
the product.
Titanium is recognized as a
critical strategic metal for its’ It is recognized for its ability
importance to the military. to alloy with other metals to
During the cold war the Soviet improve their strength durability
Union, a producer of Titanium, and lightness.
Its use in medicine also
Titanium alloys are an essential encompasses surgical instruments
component in the skins of wide and those used in image-guided
body aircraft, landing gear and surgery and magnetic resonance
hydraulic tubing. A Boeing 777 imagery.
uses 58 tons of the metal and the
Airbus A380 is projected to use Titanium is used in some
67 tons and a further 10 tons in construction projects and
the engines. associated applications such as
the 150-foot high Yuri Gagarin
Heat exchangers in desalination memorial in Moscow, the
plants rely on Titanium for its Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao,
non-corrosion properties and it Spain and others.
is even used in heater-chillers
in aquariums. The petroleum industry is a user
for its off shore activities and
It is an effective catalyst in a pipe lines.
number of commercially important
chemical processes. On a more mundane level, the
metal and its alloys can be found
Because it does not react in many every day consumer
unfavorably with the human body applications including; - tennis
and has a benign rackets, golf clubs, camping
connectivity with bone that is equipment, divers accessories,
not fully understood, Titanium is spectacle frames (also shape
used for orthopaedic implants, memory frames), food processing,
artificial heart pumps, sky writing, artificial
pacemakers, joint replacement and gemstones, sweet and candy
dental implants. coatings, bicycles, computer
components, sports safety
helmets, watches, jewelry and Process successfully reduces the
many others. expense and complexity of
producing the metal to add cost
There seems no limit to the effectiveness to its’ recognized
future uses of this unique properties.
extraordinarily versatile metal,
particularly if the FCC Cambridge
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