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How To Tell If It's Really Titanium
With the growing popularity of titanium, some disreputable merchandisers are passing off other materials as the more expensive metal. Popular Science looks at a surefire way to prove what that credit card/crowbar/ring is really made of. "Hold any genuine titanium metal object to a grinding wheel (even a little grindstone on a Dremel tool will do), and it gives off a shower of brilliant white sparks unlike any softer common metal. The sparks are tiny pieces of cut titanium--the friction of the grinder heats them till they burn white-hot. Hold a grindstone to the shackle of a "titanium" padlock from Master Lock, however, and you'll instead see the telltale fine, long, yellow sparks of high-carbon steel."
Think the store will mind if I bring a dremel with grinding wheel to the store with me? For testing purposes of course...
A Human Right
Apparently my wife's jewelry was all genuine titanium!
It still works for electronics though! (you'll prove something is dense)
lol: You see no door there!
Man, I just tried this with a new package of Energizer Tianium, and the spray burned a hole through my skin!
You can be sure I'll be returning these "titanium" batteries just as soon as I'm back from Emergency!
Next up: Test if your explosives have gone bad by detonating them.
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Apparently, Google has "interesting" sense of humor regarding titanium products.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Yes, there is a better way, and your concern about damaging expensive objects - particularly jewelry - is quite justified. Simply send the object to one of my two testing centers (conveniently covering both hemispheres - one is located in Russia, the other in Africa) and we will send you a full report of the object's composition.
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
About 18 years ago, I was on an underwater oil-drilling rig, when the mission we were "tasked" to perform by the navy went horribly wrong, and the rig started taking on water. I was running frantically running through cold freezing water towards a closing hydraulic door. I didn't make it in time, but I stuck my hand in the opening, and the door was stopped by my titanium wedding band. A colleague had found me, cut the hydraulic power to the door, and saved me. Earlier I had almost flushed it down the toilet. Good thing I didn't.
Couple hours later I met some aliens.
(Yeah, I know, but it sounds better in 1st person.)
Karma: Can only be portioned out by the Cosmos.
Its not too hard, you can try it from the comfort of your tub with a toaster.
lol: You see no door there!
If you were testing Adamantium, those sparks were probably from your grinding wheel being worn down to a nub.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
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Titanium is a woman's metal. Real men use Tungsten.
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someone please tell me how to tell if there's real platinum in my Capital One® platinum Card, I always want to know.
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