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New Titanium Processing Technique Lowers Cost
This sounds like good news for Ti lovers.
Lowering titanium's cost and environmental footprint for lightweight products |
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That article is maddening in its omission of a link to the source article. Here it is, with the abstract below:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja408118x Chemists on the Forum may appreciate this process flow: Quote:
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That's really cool.
Maybe a rise in Ti accessories; Stems, posts, bottle cages etc will follow? Last edited by jtakeda; 12-25-2013 at 04:03 PM. |
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Always impressive how people figure ways to process materials.
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Is this theory or has it been put to practice yet? Any ideas what the cost reduction will be to us, the consumer?
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id imagine it will be a while until this trickles down to cycling
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Simply a Titanic discovery !
Yea .... Ti is not an easy material to work with .... you have to know what you are doing. So even if you knock a few frns off the tube sets, you still have the labor costs.
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Could you maybe just once make a post without using the non-word frns
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Says it right on top ... take a peek ... it is in small print .... right on top Actually they are not even notes since they do not specify the terms of their redemption frnacation is the process of creating em by typing numbers into a computer spread sheet. They are frequently denoted as frn. Please look at the Wikipedia articles ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Note http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US...14-Fr.898a.jpg The are distinct from United States Notes issued by the US Treasury Notes on which taxpayers do not pay interest.
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www.HandleBra.com Last edited by Ahneida Ride; 12-26-2013 at 05:42 PM. |
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Ironic that the breakthrough was made with funding by the US Government
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Good indication that it is not a big deal and not cost-effective or the private sector would have done it a long time ago.
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