More information about titanium
The major use of titanium ores found in the United States is for pigments, while the sheet metal used for aircraft and consumer products (including jewelry) is from ores that originated outside the United States, primarily Australia, Canada, Sierra Leone, and Russia.
Some uses of titanium
- Jewelry
- Watches
- Submarines
- Jet planes
- Pigment
- Machine parts
- Body parts
- Elephant hooks
- Horseshoes
- Water desalinization plants
- Bicycle frames and accessories
- Tennis and racquetball rackets
- Eyeglass frames
- Golf clubs
- Knives
- Food processing factories
- Surgical instruments
- Camera bodies
- Firing pins for automatic weapons
- Chemical refineries
- A 1958 Thunderbird
- Satellite parts
- Danish cookware
- Audio equipment parts
- Lacrosse stick shafts
- Centrifuge rotors
- Bone screws and splints
- Rappelling racks for caving
- Emery boards
- Nail files
- Toothpaste
- Can openers
- The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain
- Camping utensils
- Ferrari hubcaps
- Guided missiles
- Motorsport components
- Baseball and softball bats
