Titanium

The film tells about the history of the discovery of titanium, about its properties, industrial production and use in the national economy. Minerals containing titanium. Production processes of titanium smelting using vacuum metallurgy in electric arc furnaces. Machining of titanium parts on machine tools. Takeoff of a passenger plane. A link of fighters in the air performs aerobatics. Samples of products made from nitinol - an alloy of titanium and nickel. During the operation, the surgeon introduces a nitinol spring to the patient. Sample of a nitinol prosthesis. Newsreel footage: an astronaut leaves the spacecraft into open space; cosmonauts in open space work near the Mir station; farm assembled at the Mir station.

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1995