Nuclear engineering titanium

In recent years a wide variety of inorganic, non-metallic materials has been developed for the electrical, nuclear power, and engineering industries. In the shaping and processing of these products some form of heat treatment is involved, and they too are regarded as ceramic materials. Examples are rutile, a form of titanium dioxide used for making ferroelectric materials steatite or talc, for electrical insulators alumina, zirconia, thoria and beryllia as refractories and electrical insulators, uranium oxide as a nuclear-fuel element, and nitrides and carbides as abrasives or insulators. 

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