 | Top 10 Reasons to Choose a Titanium Ring
1. Titanium is extremely durable and strong as steel
2. It has a lovely sheen, beautiful for both men and women
3. People who like white gold or silver will love Titanium
4. Even tho strong it is very Lightweight
5. Will not tarnish
6. Titanium is hypoallergenic
7. Titanium alloys are used in aircraft, armour plating, naval ships, spacecraft and missiles
8. Perfect for the active person
9. Men seem to really prefer Titanium
10. Titanium is many times stronger than gold, platinum or silver
A Short History of Titanium
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 a tactic in the Cold War to prevent the American military from utilizing it. In spite of these efforts, the U.S. obtained large quantities of titanium when a European company set up a front for the U.S. foreign intelligence agencies to purchase it. Indeed, titanium for the highly successful U.S. SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft was acquired from the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.
By 1956 U.S. production of titanium mill products was more than 6 million kg/yr.
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, as well as Typhoon class.
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