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Old 23rd Oct 2000, 20:13
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Lu Zuckerman
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Here is a research project:

Titanium has a characteristic that may need explaining. When an electrical current is passed through a sheet of titanium the material will change color. Depending upon how long the current is passed through the material the color will deepen. Depending upon the level of the current/voltage the color will vary. In this way,you can actually "paint" pictures on a sheet of titanium. There is a company in the UK that does this and the pictures that they make are fantastic. Here is a contact point however it may have changed as this info is twelve years old.

Stow Green Supplies
Stow-On-The-Wold
Gloucstershire
0451-30998

It is my understanding that there is a museum in either Spain or Portugal that is constructed entirely from titanium. Can you imagine what would happen if it were struck by lightning?

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