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2 unusual facts about Titanium


Pyrotechnic initiator

Titanium-boron composition is one of the hottest pyrotechnic reactions in common usage.

Titanium biocompatibility


Titanium was first introduced into surgeries in the 1950s and used in dentistry prior to that a decade earlier.


.224 Boz

In early 1999 .224 BOZ was fired in modified 10mm MP5 and 10mm Glock taking part in a head to head trial at DERA Fort Halstead (UK Defence Testing Establishment) against the NATO CRISAT specification target of layered titanium and Kevlar armour.

Aprilia Tuono

Specs included Öhlins Racing suspension, OZ forged alloy wheels, Brembo 4-pad brake calipers and an Aprilia Racing titanium exhaust system with matching EEPROM.

Archibald Geikie

Dorsa Geikie, a wrinkle ridge system on the Moon, and the mineral geikielite, a magnesium-titanium oxide, are both named after him, as is Geikie Gorge in the Napier Range in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia.

Ben Maddahi

Maddahi's A&R credits include songs such as "Titanium" by David Guetta, "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You) by Enrique Iglesias feat. Ludacris, "Wild Ones" by Flo Rida feat. Sia, and "Yeah 3X" by Chris Brown.

Focal-plane shutter

For example, the Nikon F2 (Japan) 35 mm single-lens reflex (SLR) camera of 1971 had a horizontal FP shutter with stronger titanium foil curtains to safely traverse the film gate in 10 ms (at 3.6 m/s and allowing 1/80 sec. X-sync) with a 1.8 mm slit giving a 1/2000 sec. top speed.

Gloria Material Technology Corp.

Titanium alloy: Ti-Bar, Ti-Sheet, Titanium Welding Coil, Ti-Tube, Forging / Machining Parts

Jamey Carroll

Carroll made a cameo appearance in the music video of Titanium, which was made by David Guetta, playing the role of cop.

Jeff Widener

His Nikon F3 titanium camera absorbed the blow, sparing his life.

Keith Bontrager

The Ti Lite, a titanium version of the mountain bike frame, was made by tubing manufacturer Sandvik.

Kosmos 482

At 1 am on April 3, 1972, four red-hot 13.6 kg titanium alloy balls landed within a 16 km radius of each other just outside Ashburton, New Zealand.

Litespeed

European brands such as Eddy Merckx and Bianchi have contracted Litespeed to construct titanium frames in their own lines.

Matthew A. Hunter

Matthew Albert Hunter (1878-1961) was a metallurgist and inventor of the Hunter process for producing titanium metal.

Mosler Automotive

A Photon variant is available which adds a Hewland transmission, thinwall subframes, BBS magnesium wheels, titanium springs, and carbon fiber seats and bodywork, reducing the car's mass to 1,980 lb (900 kg).

Nameplate

The properties of the name plates that vary from application to application include: Material (including aluminum, stainless steel or titanium), thickness, Custom Graphics, Screen printing, Etching, and Anodizing, Photosensitive Anodized Aluminum, Adhesive backing, UL and CSA approval, Serialization, Military Standards and Embossing.

NL Industries

During World War II, National Lead (later NL) entered the consumer market for titanium paints, creating a product line under the name Dutch Boy.

Non-Evaporable Getter

Non evaporable getters (NEG), based on the principle of metallic surface sorption of gas molecules, are mostly porous alloys or powder mixtures of Al, Zr, Ti, V and iron (Fe).

Organotitanium compound

Ziegler-Natta catalysts utilizing titanium-based catalysts soon followed as a major commercial application for which the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded.

Pudozhsky

Pudozhsky mine, a titanium mine in the Republic of Karelia, Russia

Sachtleben Chemie

In September 2008, Rockwood Holdings, Inc. entered into a joint venture with Kemira Oyj, of Finland, combining Rockwood's titanium dioxide and functional additives activities (with production based in Duisburg, Germany) and Kemira's titanium dioxide business (with production at Pori, Finland).

Schreyerite

Schreyerite (V2Ti3O9), is a vanadium, titanium oxide mineral found in the Lasamba Hill, Kwale district in Coast Province Kenya.

Shane Schofield

After losing one of her legs to a Killer whale, Mother had it replaced with a titanium prosthetic.

Sony Ericsson W395

The W395 comes in Fiesta Black, Flush Titanium, Dusky Gray, Happy Pink, and Hello Kitty Pink.

Soyuz 13

The first satellite UV spectrogram of a planetary nebula (IC 2149 in Auriga) was obtained, revealing lines of aluminium and titanium - elements not previously observed in objects of that type.

Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals

These ship parts are made up of 3 Rare Minerals, Titanium, which takes on the appearance of a Stack of Metal Sheets, Metalium, which takes on the appearance of a Meteorite with Energy Lines strung across it, and Marble, which takes on the form of a Blue-ish Elliptical shape.

Submarine hull

Titanium alloys allow a major increase in depth, but other systems need to be redesigned as well, so test depth was limited to 1000 metres (3,281 feet) for the Soviet submarine Komsomolets, the deepest-diving military submarine.

Titanium dioxide

The exterior of the Saturn V rocket was painted with titanium dioxide; this later allowed astronomers to determine that J002E3 was the S-IVB stage from Apollo 12 and not an asteroid.

Titanium ring

A titanium wedding-ring is used as a minor plot-point in the 1989 science fiction film and novel The Abyss.

To Kill the Potemkin

When titanium fragments are found on a repaired portion of the bow that came contact with the other submarine during the collision, the crew now have reason to believe that there is a revolutionary class of submarine, using titanium instead of high-tensile steel, is in service with the Soviet Navy and it is still on the loose somewhere in the Med and most likely on the way to the Atlantic.

Tourism in the Basque Autonomous Community

The city in Biscay is composed of the titanium which protects the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry, the glass which covers the entrances to the metro, designed by Norman Foster, or the steel which makes new urban development challenges possible such as the Isozaki Atea Towers by the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, or Bilbao Airport by Santiago Calatrava.

Trewarthenick

William Gregor, the discoverer of titanium, was born on the Trewarthenick Estate as was his brother Francis Gregor, MP for the County of Cornwall from 1790 to 1806.

UFO sightings in Russia

Early in 2012 a crashed titanium object, described as a "UFO fragment", was retrieved from a forest in the vicinity of Otradnensky, a Siberian village, after strange sounds were heard there in December 2011.

VSMPO-AVISMA

On 27 December 2007 US Boeing and VSMPO-AVISMA created a joint venture Ural Boeing Manufacturing and signed a contract on titanium products deliveries until 2015, with Boeing planning to invest 27 billion dollars in Russia over the next 30 years.

Wenger

The Titanium Line is a product suited to the challenges a speed climber like Ueli Steck faces.


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