Cheap yet ultrapure titanium metal might enable widespread use in industry

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Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, have removed nearly all of the oxygen from titanium in a cheap, straightforward protocol. The yttrium side product is easily recycled for subsequent purifications. This work is an important advance in metallurgy that will lower the cost of producing high-purity titanium and in so doing make more efficient use of an abundant, versatile metal.

2024.06.14

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Cheap yet ultrapure titanium metal might enable widespread use in industry

Researchers from #UTokyo_IIS have efficiently removed oxygen from high-oxygen-concentration titanium, which might help reduce the production cost of an otherwise versatile metal.

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