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Full Story: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/02/05/oxygen-titanium/ Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have found the mechanism by which titanium, prized for its strength becomes brittle with just a few extra atoms of oxygen. “Oxygen is like poison to titanium,” said study senior author Andrew Minor, an associate professor of materials science and engineering and faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “With more oxygen, the material gets harder and more susceptible to cracks, qualities that are not desirable for structural materials,” said Minor. http://www.berkeley.edu http://www.facebook.com/UCBerkeley http://twitter.com/UCBerkeley http://instagram.com/ucberkeleyofficial https://plus.google.com/+berkeley