Camps Bay Accommodation - Titanium Uses in Industry

Medicine and the many other applications that we now take for granted but may not have been possible or be as efficient by using an alternative, marine, aviation, it's unique properties have resulted in advances in technology, despite the fact that the commercial production of Titanium has only been possible in the last sixty years and then only by a complex and expensive process.

The Properties of Titanium Titanium is a chemical element with the symbol Ti. A promising new development known as the FFC Cambridge Process may result in producing Titanium at a lower cost than the original Kroll process that is still in use to this day.

It has a silvery white metallic lustre when pure.

It is as strong as steel but is only just over half its weight and is twice as strong as aluminium.

Titanium based alloys have very high strength-to-weight ratios.

Wieldable and easily worked, malleable, titanium is ductile.

Sponge and powder, granules, foil, rod, sheet, it is obtainable in a number of formats that include wire.

It has an extremely low response to magnetism.

Titanium has a very low electrical resistivity and thermal conductivity.

And alkalis, unless concentrated, chlorine and a broad range of acids, it is impervious to seawater, titanium is highly corrosion resistant.

) Titanium burns in air and is one of the very few elements to burn in Nitrogen (it makes great fireworks!

It has no effect on the human or animal body. i.e. The metal is physiologically inert and non-toxic.

It has been found in meteorites and detected in the sun and class M stars. It is the ninth most plentiful element present in the Earths crust.

Approximately 90% of worldwide usage is in the form of Titanium alloys or Titanium compounds Titanium Applications

Used the metal and its' alloys as the principal material in the construction of its submarine fleet as it is impervious to seawater, a producer of Titanium, during the cold war the Soviet Union. Titanium is recognized as a critical strategic metal for its' importance to the military. Titanium Applications. The Apollo 17 moon mission brought back rocks containing Titanium compounds.

Russia made an attempt to corner the market in Titanium to deprive the US and its allies of the material.

Ordnance and spacecraft, naval applications, military aircraft including stealth planes, titanium and its' alloys are used in the manufacture of armored vehicles.

Excellent covering properties and the ability to add strength to the product, permanency, toothpaste and cement for its intense whiteness, plastics, paper, titanium Dioxide is widely used in paint.

It is recognized for its ability to alloy with other metals to improve their strength durability and lightness.

A Boeing 777 uses 58 tons of the metal and the Airbus A380 is projected to use 67 tons and a further 10 tons in the engines. Landing gear and hydraulic tubing, titanium alloys are an essential component in the skins of wide body aircraft.

Heat exchangers in desalination plants rely on Titanium for its non-corrosion properties and it is even used in heater-chillers in aquariums.

It is an effective catalyst in a number of commercially important chemical processes.

Joint replacement and dental implants, pacemakers, artificial heart pumps, titanium is used for orthopaedic implants, because it does not react unfavorably with the human body and has a benign connectivity with bone that is not fully understood.

Its use in medicine also encompasses surgical instruments and those used in image-guided surgery and magnetic resonance imagery.

Spain and others, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, titanium is used in some construction projects and associated applications such as the 150-foot high Yuri Gagarin memorial in Moscow.

The petroleum industry is a user for its off shore activities and pipe lines.

Jewelry and many others, watches, sports safety helmets, computer components, bicycles, sweet and candy coatings, artificial gemstones, sky writing, food processing, spectacle frames (also shape memory frames), divers accessories, camping equipment, golf clubs, - tennis rackets, the metal and its alloys can be found in many every day consumer applications including; on a more mundane level.

Particularly if the FCC Cambridge Process successfully reduces the expense and complexity of producing the metal to add cost effectiveness to its' recognized unique properties, there seems no limit to the future uses of this extraordinarily versatile metal.