This story is not just about titanium. They found the principle to customizing titanium alloys. Presumably, you can adapt the principles to any metal you want.
Iron, tin, magnesium, aluminum, titnium, nickel, copper.
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I bought some welding spools of SS wire years ago from Pratt and Whitneys cash and carry store they had in East Hartford [they sold equipment,tools,machining and all kinds of neat stuff like metrological balloons, medical supplies etc. never knew what you would find there]. So I bought twelve rolls of Stainless welding wire all different but high grade stuff [Aircraft grade] including two rolls of Hastoloy wire each about 25 30 lbs left on the roll. All the rolls together were about 150.00. I used most of the 300 series up over the years on alot of different jobs and at retirement was down to the two rolls of Hastoloy. I took all the alloy to the scrap yard and was amazed at what they paid for the wire, over 800.00 for about 50 lbs of something I bought for $20 twenty years ago.