Unique Titanium Ring, Black Titanium..?
Q: Doesn't WildcatUK have some sort of black Ti? I don't know if it's pure
or an alloy though, but it sure sounds familiar...Too bad it's
summertime or I'd ask my chem professor...
A:I know not the specifics of why you can't do black titanium, I just know that
you can't. I'm sure Barry or someone else will be along shortly to provide or
more in depth explanation.
To make black niobium you just heat it up red hot and then squelch it to
create a firescale. I think there are ways to do it with Ti, but it's harder I
suppose. An SR-71 jet is black and made of Ti, so it must be possible...
Anodized aluminum is dyed. Anodized titanium is not. Titanium oxide will
not take the dye. The colors are "interference" colors created because the
thickness of the transparent oxide coating is some multiple of a wavelength
of light of a certain color. This is the same reason antireflection coatings
on camera lenses appear colored. BTW, if you heat titanium to red
hot it will burn up!
titanium nitride is a chemical compound, titanium with a nitride group
attached to it. nitride is probably NO4, so i reckon the compound is
Ti2(NO4)3.
this could be wrong but you get the idea. please don't