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Matthew Arnold Hunter

American chemist
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  • titanium
    titanium
    / Occurrence, properties, and uses

    …form (1910) by the metallurgist Matthew A. Hunter by reducing titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4) with sodium in an airtight steel cylinder.

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    …form (1910) by the metallurgist Matthew A. Hunter by reducing titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4) with sodium in an airtight steel cylinder.

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  • titanium metal
    titanium processing
    / History

    …either 1906 or 1910 by M.A. Hunter at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York, U.S.) in cooperation with the General Electric Company. These researchers believed titanium had a melting point of 6,000 °C (10,800 °F) and was therefore a candidate for incandescent-lamp filaments, but, when Hunter produced a metal with…

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    …either 1906 or 1910 by M.A. Hunter at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York, U.S.) in cooperation with the General Electric Company. These researchers believed titanium had a melting point of 6,000 °C (10,800 °F) and was therefore a candidate for incandescent-lamp filaments, but, when Hunter produced a metal with…

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