Assertion: titanium | /r/HasProperty | expensive
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: on the flip side
type: OTHER
value: compared to the other metals
type: OTHER
value: for many applications
type: PURPOSE
value: prohibitively
type: DEGREE
value: typically
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The Office of Naval Research announced in 2012 that a new method of welding titanium would be used to produce a full-sized ship hull; the construction is a breakthrough, according to the Navy, because titanium is typically too expensive and difficult to manufacture for shipbuilding.
text: This process is about 10,000 times less efficient as the process used to make iron, according to the RSC, which helps explain why titanium is the more expensive metal.
text: Both tungsten and titanium are very affordable metals.
text: It is prohibitively expensive for many applications, with a price around 50 times of plain carbon steels.
text: Titanium is very expensive because it is awkward to extract from its ores - for example, from rutile, \(TiO_2\).
text: However, on the flip side, titanium can be quite expensive compared to the other metals listed here.