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Asked by 852merf43 to Angus on 13 Jun 2016.
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Angus Cook answered on 13 Jun 2016:
Titanium is pretty strong, and its useful partially because it’s relatively light as well (not compared to a feather, but compared to steel). It’s also useful because it’s very good at not rusting (some of my friends in our lab are researching titanium and how it rusts).
You can make a stronger substance by melting titanium with other metals to make an alloy. If you add a little bit of iron, aluminium and vanadium to titanium, you can make a material which is three times the strength of pure titanium.
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852merf43 commented on :
Is it pretty
Angus commented on :
I think so, but what do you think?
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It can also be polished really really finely, to make it shine like a mirror. We do this sometimes to our samples in the lab. It makes the surface really REALLY smooth, and lets us reveal really small details in the metal structure, which tells us about how the material is put together.
Kieran.Mackay commented on :
I think that it isn’t very strong compared to some other substances.