Titanium+Description

Titanium is a strong, lightweight metal used for many purposes. It is an important alloying agent with most metals. Titanium is used for/in: Aircrafts, Spacecrafts, missiles, and ships. It is also used to make durable light weight tools, surgical instruments, armor plating, steam-turbine blades, golf clubs, bicycles, and other sporting equipment.

Titanium is shiny, dark-grey metal. It is considered very valuable metal, but it isn't very hard to find. 0.44% of the Earth's crust is titanium. Titanium never appears naturally in metallic form because it bonds to oxygen strongly. It appears in ores rutile and ilmentite. It's Melting point is at 1660 degrees Celsius, its boiling point is at 3287 degrees Celsius. At room temperature it is a solid.

One of its most useful purposes is as a titanium alloy for artifical joints, bones, and medical pins (for broken bones). Titanium is strong enough to support the human body. Also it is one of the few metals that does not affect the human body, because it doesn't react with flesh and bone. Unless helping heal a broken bone is affecting the body. Or if replacing an entire part or joint in your body is also affecting, then i stand corrected.

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