titanium
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Don’t Believe TikTok, Titanium Dioxide in Tampons Does Not Cause Cancer
A viral TikTok with millions views about how tampons that contain titanium dioxide can cause cancer and other health problems has spurred calls on the platform to throw away all products that match that description. Before you start gathering all your tampons and scouring their ingredient lists, you should know that experts want you to…
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Jewellery Made From An Actual SR-71 Blackbird Is Cool As Hell
Any old jerk can wear a fancy ring, but how many people can say their bling was made from materials that once flew at mach 3.2+ on the famed Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane? Now that’s some provenance.
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The Best Fitness Tracker You Can Buy Now Has A Sleek Titanium Case
The Basis Peak is probably the best fitness tracker you can buy right now, more capable and more accurate than the rest of the competition. It’s just been updated with a sleek titanium case, a bunch of new leather straps and a fistful of smart software tweaks.
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New Iron-Aluminium Alloy Is Strong And Light As Titanium, 10% Of The Cost
The best materials are, by and large, the most expensive: carbon fibre, diamond and scandium all have properties to lust for, but an eye-watering price tag to match. Now, material scientists have tweaked an iron-aluminium alloy at the nano-scale to make a material that’s as strong and light as titanium, another expensive material, but just…