All you ever wanted to know about Titanium

This interesting article about `Titanium uses in Industry` reveals some facts you may not have known about your favorite metal:

  • It has an extremely low response to magnetism
  • Its use in medicine also encompasses surgical instruments and those used in image-guided surgery and magnetic resonance imagery.
  • It is the ninth most plentiful element present in the Earths crust. It has been found in meteorites and detected in the sun and class M stars.
  • The Apollo 17 moon mission brought back rocks containing Titanium compounds.
  • Russia made an attempt to corner the market in Titanium to deprive the US and its allies of the material.
  • Many more fun facts in the article

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