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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
Titanium has the strength of steel and the weight of aluminum. It's expensive to purchase and very expensive to machine.
Platinum is a precious metal.........more costly than gold IIRC. It's soft as hell, however.........useless for any tools or parts.
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They have used it in Race cars for suspension parts, IIRC. Maybe there are different alloys of it with different properties.
Then again it may depend on what you mean when you say "soft as hell"....
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