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Metallurgy and Technological Properties of Titanium and Titanium Alloys

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Titanium in Medicine

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Titanium, occasionally referred to as the “wonder metal”, has been utilized in a growing list of specialized applications since the Kroll process made the winning of this material from ores a commercial possibility in 1936 [1]. Titanium is the ninth most common element in the earth’s crust and is recovered from Ti02-rich deposits of rutile, ilmenite and leucoxene that are found on every continent. Since the discovery of titanium in 1794 [2], and up until Kroll’s innovative process development in 1936, there had been no practical method to recover titanium metal from these ores because of its pronounced affinity for oxygen. Modern ore extraction, beneficiation and chemical processes have since enabled the large-volume manufacturing of high-grade TiO2, an important pigment for paints and commercial products, and of titanium metal for the production of the CP (“Commercially Pure”) titanium grades, titanium-based alloys and other alloys systems.

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Freese, H.L., Volas, M.G., Wood, J.R. (2001). Metallurgy and Technological Properties of Titanium and Titanium Alloys. In: Titanium in Medicine. Engineering Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56486-4_3

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