Talk:Titanium
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Information Sources
Some of the text in this entry was rewritten from Los Alamos National Laboratory - Titanium (http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/22.html). Additional text was taken directly from USGS Titanium Statistics and Information (http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/titanium/), from the Elements database 20001107 (via dict.org (http://www.dict.org)), Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (via dict.org (http://www.dict.org)) and WordNet (r) 1.7 (via dict.org (http://www.dict.org)). Data for the table were obtained from the sources listed on the subject page and WikiProject Elements but were reformatted and converted into SI units.
Suggestions for changes
"Titanium metal is not found unbound to other elements in nature"
- Should this not read "..is not found unbound from other elements..." ?
"The relatively high melting point of this element makes it useful as a refractory metal."
- Is it a refractory metal or not? It is not listed as being one on the page refractory metal - should it be, or is this page incorrect? or is there an ambiguity in the term refractory metal?
titanium is extensively used in dental implants which are made possible by its very existence
"The metal, which burns when heated in air, is also the only element that can burn in pure nitrogen gas." This can't be right. The very definition of burning (according to Combustion) is that something reacts with oxygen. arj 10:48, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Oxygen is just the most common. --mav 06:46, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Umm...a different objection, I think magnesium also burns in a nitrogen atmosphere
- Hm. You are right. Fixed. The trouble is that this factoid is repeated in two of the sources listed as references on this page. --mav
Is titanium a refractory metal? the refractory metals article lists five, all of which seem to be much harder and resistant to heat than titanium. The article says that titanium is 40% as dense as steel and 45% lighter than steel (i.e. 55% as dense).
FCC-Cambridge extraction method
The FCC Cambridge method also is applicable to other hard to extract transitional metals, such as platinum. I think that this method deserves its own article.Raivein 03:09, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)