A new smelter at Shotton produces titanium metal for use in aircraft production elsewhere.
When exposed to nitrogen clean titanium metal is covered with a titanium nitride layer.
In fact, about two thirds of all titanium metal produced is used in aircraft engines and frames.
The main uses for rutile are the manufacture of refractory ceramic, as a pigment, and for the production of titanium metal.
In these reactions, ethylene coordinates to titanium metal followed by its insertion.
The holder material can be steel, titanium, machinable ceramic, other metals or rigid materials.
It is an important intermediate in the production of titanium metal and the pigment titanium dioxide.
The world's supply of titanium metal, about 4M tons per year, is made from TiCl.
It is prepared by reacting titanium dioxide with titanium metal at 1600 C.
Also raining down will be 5,500 bolts of various sizes made of heat-resistant titanium metal.