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A Study Of The Dissolution Of Titanium In Acids With Emphasis On Hydrofluoric Acid, Ping-Chao Chen
A Study Of The Dissolution Of Titanium In Acids With Emphasis On Hydrofluoric Acid, Ping-Chao Chen
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"Titanium is practically a new metal. Although it was discovered by W. Gregor in 1791, the pure metal was not prepared until 1910 by M. A. Hunter, and it is only very recently that tremendous interest has been focused on this new metal, as evidenced by the activities of numerous leading laboratories and pilot plants.
The reasons that Ti is gaining increasing attention may be attributed to the natural abundance of Ti ores in reasonable concentration and, what is more important, to its unusual combination of physical and chemical properties. According to F. W. Clark’s classical geochemical data, Ti amounts …