The titanium Apple Card is laser-etched with the card holder’s name and the Apple logo. A white finish is achieved through a multi-layer coating process that’s added to the titanium base material.
But how much titanium? To find out, a Bloomberg Businessweek reporter sent his card to a mineralogist, University of California, Berkeley professor Hans-Rudolf Wenk. Professor Wenk used what’s known as a scanning electron microscope, or SEM device, to determine the card’s atomic makeup. He found that the answer is about 90%. The rest of the card is aluminum, according to the analysis.
MacDailyNews Take: Wow, that’s a higher amount of titanium than we would’ve guessed!
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
I remember telling Steve that titanium, not unapologetic plastic, was the future. As usual, I was right.
Way off CitizenX – Liquid Metal!
Sapphire
Admantium or unobtanium……
You are a Jonny and I claim my Bondi Blue IMac.
I guess you can always guarantee that last decades impervious wonder material will end up merely another pampered scratch prone delicate flower the next.
The future is zero matter
Please, let’s not start on the liberals cranial contents.
Are people really this Lame, someone spent a chunk of change to determine the composition of the Apple Card? They have nothing better to do… some people really need to get a life..
Almost as bad as someone who has nothing else better to do than read MDN and comment on people who have nothing else better to do.
ROTFLMAO!
what a waste or resources. humans are stupid. apple fanboys the stupidest.
Actually, he used a SEM/EDS for the analysis. The SEM causes the sample to emit characteristic x-rays, the EDS (Energy Dispersive x-ray Spectrometer) measures the x-rays producing a spectrum identifying the elements in the sample. Anyway, kudos.
Ah, thank you! I’ll look this up.
Exactly what I was thinking. And EDS (or EDAX back when I was using it) is a surface analysis. I goes a lot deeper than something like Auger, but it is not a bulk analysis.
Outside of Commercially Pure, most titanium alloys I worked with had at least 10% alloying content. One popular alloy is 6% Aluminum and 4% Vanadium.
How can you tell w EM? Crystal structure? I’d think ICP MS more likely?