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Titanium is very strong, durable, does not tarnish and is hypoallergenic. The nice sheen is a lovely alternative to white gold, silver and platinum. |
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TITANIUM RINGS Titanium rings are much harder than gold, silver, or platinum, and resistant to dents and dings
Titanium is probably one of the least known of the metals used in wedding bands and
Top 10 Reasons to Choose a Titanium Ring An amateur geologist Reverend William Gregor, discovered Titanium at Creed, Cornwall in England, in 1791. He recognized the presence of a new element in ilmenite, and named it menachite (alternately spelled manaccanite), after the nearby parish of Manaccan. About the same time, Franz Joseph Muller also produced a similar substance, but could not identify it. The element was independently rediscovered in rutile ore several years later by German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth. Klaproth confirmed it as a new element and in 1795 he named it for the Titans of Greek mythology. The metal has always been difficult to extract from its various ores. Pure metallic titanium (99.9%) was first prepared in 1910 by Matthew A. Hunter by heating TiCl4 with sodium in a steel bomb at 700–800 °C in the Hunter process. Titanium metal was not used outside the laboratory until 1946 when William Justin Kroll proved that titanium could be commercially produced by reducing titanium tetrachloride with magnesium in the Kroll process which is the method still used today. In 1950–1960s the Soviet Union attempted to corner the world titanium market as Because it is considered to be physiologically inert, the metal is used in joint replacement implants such as hip ball and sockets. Titanium is also used for the surgical instruments used in image-guided surgery and even watches are coated with Titanium. Many backpackers use titanium equipment, including cookware, eating utensils, lanterns and tent stakes. Owing to its strength and inertness to seawater, as well as its substantial ore deposits in Russia, it was the principal material used in the construction of many advanced Russian submarines, including deepest-diving military submarines to date, Alfa and Mike class,
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