{"id":230547,"date":"2024-01-16T16:25:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T08:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230547"},"modified":"2024-01-16T16:25:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T08:25:55","slug":"the-story-of-titanium-by-brian-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230547","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Titanium &#8211; by Brian Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But despite its abundance, it&#8217;s only recently that civilization has been able to use titanium as a metal (titanium dioxide has been in use somewhat longer as a paint pigment). Because titanium so readily bonds with oxygen and other elements, it doesn\u2019t occur at all in metallic form in nature. One engineer described titanium as a \u201cstreetwalker,&#8221; because it will pick up anything and everything. While copper has been used by civilization since 7000 BC, and iron since around 3000 BC, titanium wasn\u2019t discovered<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.construction-physics.com\/p\/the-story-of-titanium\">The Story of Titanium &#8211; by Brian Potter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But despite its abundance, it&#8217;s only recently that civilization has been able to use titanium as a metal (titanium dioxide has been in use somewhat longer as a paint pigment). Because titanium so readily bonds with oxygen and other elements, it doesn\u2019t occur at all in metallic form in nature. One engineer described titanium as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230548,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230547\/revisions\/230548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}