Stronger than steel: Plastics, Vol. 8, No. 10

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1948
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 72 KB
• Volume: 246
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(48)90303-2

✦ Synopsis

Newport, Delaware, plant of the Pigments Department. This, so far as the company knows, is the first time ductile titanium metal has been produced for commercial exploration. The U. S. Bureau of Mines has been producing the metal for research purposes.

Reports of the Bureau of Mines and other organizations indicate that the properties of titanium are such that it may be used for reciprocating mechanical parts and in jet engines where heat and pressure are great.

Most titanium metal which has beeri available hei~etofore has been in powder" form. Du Pont is producing it now in sponge form and will shortly be producing ingots weighing up to 100 lb. Running 99.5 per cent plus of purity, the metal is ductile and carl be rolled and drawn readily. It has high resistance to breaking or pulling and has high strength against distortion. The company will supply small samples without charge to industrial and university laboratories for testing.