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In 1947, people began to smelt titanium in factories. That year, the output was only 2 tons. Production surged to 20,000 tons in 1955. In 1972, the annual output reached 200,000 tons. The hardness of titanium is about the same as that of steel, and its weight is almost half that of steel of the same volume. Although titanium is slightly heavier than aluminum, its hardness is twice that of aluminum. Now, in space rockets and missiles, a large amount of titanium is used instead of steel. According to statistics, the world's titanium used for space navigation every year has reached more than 1,000 tons of extremely fine titanium powder, which is also good fuel for rockets, so titanium is known as cosmic metal and space metal.

Titanium has good heat resistance, and its melting point is as high as 1725°C. At room temperature, titanium can lie in a variety of strong acid and alkali solutions. Even the most ferocious acid, aqua regia, cannot corrode it. Titanium is not afraid of seawater. Someone once sunk a piece of titanium to the bottom of the sea. Five years later, he took it up and took a look. There were many small animals and seabed plants stuck on it, but there was no rust at all, and it was still shiny.

Now, people are beginning to use titanium to make submarines-titanium submarines. Because titanium is very strong and can withstand high pressure, this submarine can sail in deep seas as deep as 4500 meters.

Titanium is corrosion-resistant, so it is often used in the chemical industry. In the past, stainless steel was used for the parts containing hot nitric acid in chemical reactors. Stainless steel is also afraid of the strong corrosive-hot nitric acid. This kind of parts must be replaced every six months. Now, titanium is used to make these parts. Although the cost is more expensive than stainless steel parts, it can be used continuously for five years, which is much more cost-effective to calculate.

The biggest disadvantage of titanium is that it is difficult to extract. The main reason is that titanium has a strong ability to combine with oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and many other elements at high temperatures. Therefore, no matter when smelting or casting, people are careful to prevent these elements from "invading" titanium. When smelting titanium, air and water are of course strictly forbidden. Even the alumina crucible commonly used in metallurgy is also forbidden to use because titanium will take oxygen from the alumina. At present, people use magnesium and titanium tetrachloride to interact with inert gas-helium or argon to extract titanium.

People take advantage of the extremely strong chemical ability of titanium at high temperatures. During steelmaking, nitrogen is easily dissolved in the molten steel. When the steel ingot is cooled, bubbles are formed in the steel ingot, which affects the quality of the steel. Therefore, the steelworkers add titanium metal to the molten steel to combine with nitriding to become slag-titanium nitride, which floats on the surface of the molten steel, so that the steel ingot is relatively pure.

When a supersonic aircraft is flying, the temperature of its wings can reach 500°C. If the wing is made of relatively heat-resistant aluminum alloy, one to two or three hundred degrees will be overwhelming. There must be light, tough, and high-temperature resistant material to replace the aluminum alloy ethyl titanium to meet these requirements. Titanium can withstand the test of more than one hundred degrees below zero. At this low temperature, titanium still has good toughness without being brittle.
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