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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (74680)	8/8/2001 4:42:19 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116753

The link you provided was bad and the process was not explained. How does the process get around Titanium's strong reducing power? A metal has a fixed electronegativity and Titanium would seem to use a lot of power to get reduced to metal. What is the trick? Is it some kind of gas process? I know Tin and Aluminum can be processed this way. They do it in Russia with Chlorine and Sulphate gas and it is dirt cheap and environmentally friendly. You need 5 % metal but that is not hard to get with Titanium. Even given the cheapness of the process, and the new useage for Titanium in construction there has to be a great increase in Industrial usage to justify mining scads of it. And a process of separation must go along with concentration from Iron deposits too to suit many deposits in Canada. I suppose they could start building more Aircraft, ship superstructures and car parts out of Titanium as it is very corrosion resistant, very like Aluminum in that respect. EC<:-}