[TheForge] titanium

[Jerry Smith]

If I am cutting titanium with an abrasive saw, I get chips and flakes that 
will ignite.

Jerry

  10:44 PM 7/23/2004, you wrote:
>I suppose if you wanted to reduce it to dust first, you could get it to 
>burn around 1000F
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>Andy Vida wrote:
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>>Jerry Smith wrote:
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>>>         Titanium has an ignition point of something like 6,000 degrees F.
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>>         Titanium is very difficult to light, but once started, you do
>>         not want to be anywhere near it.  It is a reactive metal, meaning
>>         it has a great affinity for oxygen, among other things.  Once you
>>         go past a threshold, it is like a runaway train.
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