A New, Energy-Efficient Chemical Pathway for Extracting Ti Metal from Ti Minerals.
Titanium is the ninth most abundant element, fourth among common metals, in the Earth's crust. Apart from some high-value applications in, e.g., the aerospace, biomedicine, and defense industries, the use of titanium in industrial or civilian applications has been extremely limited because of its hi...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 135; no. 49; pp. 18248 - 18252 |
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American Chemical Society
12/11/2013
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