Our World Today Depends on Titanium
That which we now take for granted would not be possible without titanium. Cell phones, the internet, e-commerce, social media, our connected world could not exist without three basic technologies: rockets, jet engines, electronic chips. No rockets no satellites, no satellites no cell phones or internet. Rockets must have titanium to put satellites into orbit.
Computer chip circuits must be etched on a wafer. High purity sputtered titanium allows the circuits to be created. No chips, no cell phones, no internet. Not counting all the other things that are controlled by chips. Commerce and people efficiently move rapidly around the world. Without jet engines that does not happen. Without titanium the modern jet engine is not feasible.
All of which occurred in the last 50 years. Bob Lee 4 May 2018
History of Titanium
Titanium was discovered in 1790 when Reverend William Gregor, an amateur geologist, identified the element in the black sand on the Cornish beaches in England. Five years later, an eminent German Chemist, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, recognized a dioxide of the same metal in rutile ore (TiO2, it is in your toothpaste and white paint) and called it “Titanium” after the Titans, mythical Greek Gods of enormous strength.
Over 100 years later, in 1910 American Chemist, M.A. Hunter, finally succeeded in extracting titanium metal from the ore. Hunter’s discovery marked the birth of the titanium industry. Today, the highest purity titanium sponge is produced by the Hunter Sodium Reduction method.
Our Titanium Sponge Granules originate from the Hunter process.
