A Cleaner, Cheaper Route to Titanium

Burlap writes "Using technology developed at MIT, 4-person startup Avanti Metal hopes to reduce the cost of producing Titanium from the current $40 per pound to a mere $3. The article discusses how a special combinations of oxides and electrolysis separates the titanium metal from the Earth's abundant titanium oxide ore."

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Re:One of my first jobs

[Anonymous Coward]

I worked at a titanium manufacturing plant

titanium tetrachloride was so volatile that just a spoonfull released into the atmosphere would create a huge white cloud

I got hydrofluoric acid on my fingers

I accidently breathed in some vapors

You sound like a dumbass.

Is that why they fired you?