Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, yet products based on pure titanium are uncommon because it's expensive to remove the oxygen from titanium ore. Reducing costs would ...

Hydrometallurgical processing of titanium ores encompasses a suite of aqueous chemical methods aimed at extracting titanium in a high‐purity form from naturally occurring minerals such as ilmenite and ...

Supply and cost constraints may slow down use of titanium as an engineering material outside of aircraft even though interest is skyrocketing in the high-strength, lightweight metal. One issue is that ...