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Why is titanium nitride used as a coating on tools and decorative glass?
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High-purity (99.999 percent) titanium metal.
Titanium nitride (TiN) is utilized as a coating for tools and decorative glass due to its specific physical and aesthetic properties:
- Tool Coatings: The compound is highly valued for its exceptional hardness, which makes it an effective coating to extend the operational life of tools.1
- Decorative Glass: Titanium nitride possesses an attractive yellow color, which is why it is frequently applied as a coating for decorative glass and in the production of jewelry.1
Beyond these applications, the compound is also used within the electronics industry, where it serves as a gate material and a diffusion barrier in very-large-scale-integration microprocessors.1