There has to be a better way to make titanium | Orca Notes

orcasciences.com · 4,573 words · saved by 2 readers

Titanium is an amazing material. How can we make it cheap and abundant?

Titanium is an amazing material. How can we make it cheap and abundant? On paper, titanium should be the world's #1 structural metal. There isn’t another metal with such great overall properties– incredible toughness and specific strength, light weight, exceptional corrosion resistance, and performance even at extreme temperatures. Titanium is also abundant, the 9th most common element in the earth's crust—cheap enough as ore to use in paint pigment and plastic filler[1]. And making titanium metal should take only half as much energy as making aluminum[2]. It should be cheap and ubiquitous.…

There has to be a better way to make titanium | Orca Notes

saved by

related reading