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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (74688)	8/8/2001 5:51:26 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116753

So you ram the Ilmenite into a bed of road salt and turn on the juice and le voila you get Ti pure. Sounds complex. And you get calcium oxide, chlorine gas and pure Ti metal. No wonder no one thought of it before. So if you mix a bed of these animals together and inductively heat it, would the TiO2 get charged by the current and give up its O2? I guess you need an anode. So let's say you have two carbon plates, horizontal, the bottom one charged negative. You move a slurry of Ilmenite through the two plates in a bath of hot CaCl2. When the Ilmenite touches the carbon plate it gets charged negatively and gives up its O2 to the salt. Would this work? I guess you might have aproblem with the carbon at high temp as the upper plate might react with the chlorine and make something nasty. EC<:-}