Titanium Information
Certain titanium alloys (e.g., Beta C) achieve tensile strengths of over 1400 MPa (200,000 psi). Titanium is not as hard as some grades of heat-treated steel, is non-magnetic and a poor conductor of heat and electricity.
The element occurs within a number of mineral deposits, principally rutile and ilmenite, which are widely distributed but it is still somewhat rare and expensive compared to many other metals. Because it cannot be readily produced by reduction of its dioxide, titanium metal is obtained by reduction of TiCl4 with magnesium metal in the Kroll Process. The complexity of this batch production in the Kroll process explains the relatively high market value of titanium... so yeah you aren't going to be producing this on your own.
About 95% of all titanium ore is refined into titanium dioxide which is used in paints, paper, toothpaste, plastics and as strengthening agent in graphite composite fishing rods and golf clubs. Those uses basically use it up. So where would you be able to scavange Titanium? Titanium alloys are used in aircraft, armor plating, naval ships, spacecraft, and missiles. For these applications, titanium is alloyed with Aluminium, Zirconium, Nickel, Vanadium, and other elements. Two thirds of all Titanium metal produced is used in aircraft engines and frames. Titanium is used to make propeller shafts, rigging, and heat exchangers in desalination plants, heater-chillers for salt water aquariums, divers' knives.
Titanium is used in many sporting goods: tennis rackets, golf clubs, lacrosse stick shafts; cricket, hockey, lacrosse, football helmet grills, and high end bicycle frames and components. Titanium is usedby backpackers in cookware, eating utensils, lanterns, and tent stakes. Titanium is also used for the surgical instruments and surgical implants.
Titanium drill bits are only coated with Titanium.
Titanium has a melting temperature of 1670C (3040F).
