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Old 12-18-2008, 08:48 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I am not sure about titanium. I am pretty sure that it doesn't react with methanol in the way aluminum does, but titanium is brittle, and expensive as hell. An alloy containing titanium and steel perhaps?
Quote, ASM Handbook:
"Unlike other engineering metals, titanium and zirconium alloys are highly susceptible to SCC (Stress-Corrosion Cracking) in anhydrous or near anhydrous methanol liquid and vapor."

Guess that shoots that option down. Now to find something else...

Okay... NEXT! *Ushers in Rearden Metal...*
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