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Article about Titanium Rings. Learn about manufacturing!
Titanium is a luxurious grey metallic element.
Titanium, known for its lightweight, resistant quality is used in many consumer product
industries; including medical, automotive, marine, architecture, aircraft and
jewelry. The durability of Titanium makes it very popular in the jewelry
industry to sustain a quality product. Titanium has the
highest strength to weight ratio of any known element. For this reason titanium
is the favored material in the aerospace industry.
Only slightly heavier than aluminum with the strength of steel. Today, “light’
is the quality standard in all fields. With jewelry, titanium’s light weight
translates into comfort. Platinum, gold and silver must sacrifice style and
function to reduce weight and costs.
Titanium being inert exhibits exceptional resistance to a broad range of
corrosive attacks by saltwater, gases, acids and alkalis or any body chemistry. Forever Metals commercially pure (CP) titanium is 100% hypoallergenic
and allergy free and will not produce skin irritation or discoloration. Titanium is virtually non-magnetic,
making it ideal for applications where electromagnetic interference must be
minimized. Pure titanium is about as strong as steel yet nearly half the weight.
When added to various alloys, its hardness, toughness and tensile strength can
be increased dramatically. Titanium’s outstanding strength-to-lightweight ratio and its incredible
resistance to most forms of corrosion have been the primary historical
incentives for utilizing titanium in the industry, replacing stainless steels,
copper alloys and other metals.
Titanium is the perfect marriage of art and science. When a person has
an allergic reaction when wearing a pair of gold or silver earrings due to the
alloys, it is recommended that they switch over to titanium earrings. And unlike
silver, titanium will never tarnish!
Most titanium jewelry products being sold are some type of alloyed titanium
(not pure titanium). We use a commercially pure (CP) grade of titanium.
Within the CP category the most popular are grades 1 through 4. CP Grade 1
is the softest and Grade 4 is the hardest. The primary difference between
the grades is the quantity of Oxygen, the addition of which creates the
increases in hardness. Commercially pure titanium does not react to
sunlight, salt water or anything that the body emits.
Forever Metals
composition of titanium is T1, T2
Titanium rings made using pure titanium can normally be
cut-off the finger in the event of an emergency, though they are more difficult
to cut-off than gold, silver or platinum rings. Forever Metals uses CP Grade 2
in all of our gray titanium products. We found it to be the ideal balance
between titanium's hardness and workability. It can be cut off,
refinished, and engraved, yet it is resistant to marring and polishes well.
Aircraft grade titanium rings normally cannot be cut-off in
the event of an emergency. Forever Metals does not
endorse aircraft grade titanium due to safety issues and it being an overall
hard material to work with. Aircraft grade titanium has many more
inconsistencies overall when working with a harder substance and aircraft
titanium is not pure so it does not have other advantages as CP titanium has. Forever Metals uses commercially pure titanium (CP) that has been endorsed world wide.
Black Titanium
We do offer a Black color titanium.
The black color titanium's composition is our commercially pure titanium,
plus a carbon dioxide is filled in to make a chemical reaction.
IP colored
The technology IP colored can form some different colors, including rose, 18K
gold color, 20K gold color, black, rainbow, coffee. We plate the ring
titanium, then we fill in oxygen, nitrogen or carbon dioxide to form different
colors.
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