June 6, 2008
The wearing of a man wedding ring is a relatively modern phenomenon. So is the use of Titanium in Titanium mens rings.
One of the newest and classiest of the modern jewelry materials, Titanium is setting a standard in the looks of contemporary mens wedding bands.
Despite this, mens titanium rings are reasonably hard to find in your local jewelry store. Unfortunately titanium hasn’t quite made it into the consciousness of your local jewelry merchant. So if you want to find the ultimate in contemporary male jewelry, including men’s titanium rings, you have to look further affield.
Enter the internet. There is a world of choice on the net for the
modern couple searching for the ideal contemporary design mens titanium wedding band.
But first, what is titanium?
Titanium is a naturally occurring element, not an alloy. In other words it isn’t just a mixture of two or more different metals to produce a third one, as alloys are. That is not to say that Titanium cannot be alloyed with other metals, just that Titanium itself is not an alloy.
It is in fact often alloyed with other metals for jewelry making to make it harder, although all Titanium including pure Titanium makes a fine jewelry material.
For the more chemically minded amongst us, Titanium is listed in the periodic table as a natural element, atomic number 22.
It was named in 1795 after the god Titan.
Titanium can even be found in space rocks. The Apollo 17 mission
brought back rocks with up to 12% Titanium in them.
Because of it’s natural properties Titanium has been primarily used in the aerospace industry, and only more recently applied to jewelry making.
But why is Titanium such a great material for making mens wedding
bands? A number of reasons.
Firstly it is very hard, much harder than traditional ring materials such as gold and silver. It is extremely lightweight, corrosion resistant and very strong. It is so strong in fact that rings are fashioned out of a solid block of metal, so make sure that you get your size right as resizing is usually not an option.
It is hypoallergenic, meaning that it cannot produce skin reactions or allergies as can be found with some other ring materials, though rare.
But the real reason is that it looks great! Titanium can be shaped into a wide variety of styles. It can also be colored into a stunning range of colors which can be mixed and matched.
For this reason the range of choices in mens Titanium wedding bands is much greater than for a more traditional material such as gold for example. Although gold can be altered to offer a small range of different colours, it is basically gold colored. Titanium offers a much wider range of choices in color.
Titanium also offers a choice of finish, most commonly satin, matt or polished.
Black Titanium mens wedding rings are amongst the most eye catching of all the Titanium rings. Black Titanium rings are usually a mix of black Titanium coupled with another color as an all black ring can be overpowering. But a contemporary style mens black Titanium ring is almost the ultimate in chic for the man who wants to make a statement.
Mens Titanium rings can be coupled with a wide range of precious
gemstones, including diamonds, to add effect. And as Titanium is so strong it is also possible to buy tension set titanium rings.
What are these? Well the strength of the material is used to suspend a gemstone, say a diamond, between the two ends of the ring so that the gemstone is almost hanging in space in the ring. A totally modern look.
The strength of the Titanium keeps it there.
And for the more creatively minded amongst us it is possible to design your own mens Titanium ring. There are online jewellers who offer the option of making up a design for your Titanium ring that is unique only to you. You decide exactly what style, color or mix of colors you want.
Want to add a gemstone? Or more than one? Where do you want to put it in the ring? It’s all up to you.
There is no doubt that the older traditional materials used for making rings make beautiful rings. Gold or silver rings are still high on the list of choices for many men, and modern ring designs in these materials are also impressive.
But the modern man who has decided to wear his marital status on
his finger shouldn’t buy a ring before he looks at the range of
Titanium mens wedding rings.
The only difficulty is making up your mind which one!
Find out more about Titanium Mens Rings as well as many other types of Men’s Wedding Rings
including Platinum, Gold, Silver, Diamond, unique and custom made and inexpensive Mens Wedding Rings.
© 2005 Peter Crump.
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Spain is a country in southwestern Europe, bordering the Bay of Biscay, the Mediterranean Sea, the North Atlantic Ocean, and the Pyrenees Mountains, southwest of France. Spain consists of 19 autonomous communities including the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, and three small Spanish possessions off the coast of Morocco - Islas Chafarinas, Penon de Alhucemas, and Penon de Velez de la Gomera.
The total area of Spain is 504,782 sq km.
Spain has borders with Andorra (63.7 km), France (623 km), Gibraltar (1.2 km), Portugal (1,214 km), Morocco (Ceuta) (6.3 km), Morocco (Melilla) (9.6 km).
The Spanish climate is considered temperate; clear, hot summers in the interior, more moderate and cloudy along coast; cloudy, cold winters in the interior, and partly cloudy and cool along the coast.
The population of Spain is 40,341,462 (July 2005).
Castilian Spanish is the official language nationwide and is spoken by 74% of the population. Catalan is spoken by 17%, Galician is spoken by 7%, Basque is spoken by 2%. These languages are official regionally.
Religion: 94% of the people are Roman Catholic.
The Spain-Encyclopedia.com is a free online encyclodedia dedicated to Spain and all things Spanish! The Spain-Encyclopedia.com is currently seeking authors to write short articles on Spain and all aspects of Spanish life. No experience necessary.
Copyright 2005 Hugh Griffin
The http://www.spain-encyclopedia.com Spain Encyclopedia is a free online encyclodedia dedicated to Spain and all things Spanish! We welcome contributions on all aspects of Spain and Spanish life. In particular we welcome factual entries about cities, towns, and tourist resorts, topics relevant to living in Spain, food and drink, the history of Spain, tourist information, Spanish weather, Spanish holidays and fiestas, Spanish culture and customs.
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A human life-span, even a hundred years pales into insignificance against the life span of some trees. It takes 100 years for a eucalypt to develop hollow branches or trunk sufficient for a bird to nest in, or to house a sleepy possum.
Many quite ordinary rainforest trees live for hundreds and even thousands of years. Some quite small rainforest trees, perhaps only waist or shoulder high can be, perhaps, ten or twenty years old, just waiting in a state of limbo for a nearby forest giant to fall. With the sudden breaking of the forest canopy allowing sunlight to enter, this tree is poised ready for action growing to fill the void.
At Quamby Falls Lodge, a couple’s retreat in the Gold Coast Hinterland, there is an ancient Brush Box, Lophostemon confertus, which is older than the rainforest surround it; Normally growing in the sunny marginal forests, this tree and some it it’s companions date to a different climatic period when rainfall was less and the forest more open. No young trees of the same species grow in the forest. They are all mature and ancient. This particular tree is hollow and you can enter by stooping through a narrow opening in the roots. With a girth of 8 metres (26ft) you can stand inside the hollow trunk and with arms fully outstretched not reach the sides. Looking up, 30 metres above, there is a window to the sky where the top has been sheared away by the wind at the level of the surrounding forest canopy.
Six thousand years ago during the last ice-age the climate was colder and drier. Aborigines roamed and hunted on the alluvial coast plains now submerged beneath the ocean as the continental shelf, and Australia was connected to the rest of the world.
Gradually, as the ice melted and the climate became warmer, the sea level rose. Australia’s mountainous Great Dividing Range became closer to the coast and rain patterns changed. Vegetation and forests changed. Rainforests gradually developed where there were none before,and receded elsewhere. Four thousand years ago Egyptians built the Pyramids at the dawn of recorded history.
Two thousand years ago Christ was born. Two hundred years ago the first white settlers came to Australia and tree began to be felled.
Fifty years ago logging reached its peak in Australia with massive trees felled and milled, or cut for woodchip.
Somewhere in that time, two thousand years ago, perhaps four thousand years ago when the Pyramids were being built, this ancient tree started life as a tender green seedling in a quite different forest environment. To stand inside it now, a living tree with a healthy green canopy gives a different perspective on life, history and the importance of preserving our environment. Taking hundreds, thousands of years to grow, a tree can be cut down and destroyed in minutes by the hand of man.
If you examine the end grain of a log or a piece of timber you will be astounded by the number of annular rings, one for each year it grew as a tree. At one per millimetre a tree of 200mm diameter, 100mm radius could be a hundred years old; a half meter diameter, 250mm radius 250 year old. Not all trees grow at the same rate, of course, some are faster, some slower.
Examine a piece of firewood before you throw it on the fire, or the polished end-grain of a piece of furniture. You will be astounded by the age revealed. But it is more than that, it is also a calendar of climate recording the wet year when growth was rapid, and the droughts when the growth rings were close together, tight and hard.
A tree is not just timber, firewood, a view, or part of a forest. It is also part of history growing long before we were even thought of, and perhaps long after we have passed. Faithfully recording climate and rainfall, drought and fire.
It makes you think!
Ian Gasking has a website http://www.quamby.net Normally Ian and his wife Normajean give people unforgettable experiences on their 50 Rainforest property. After a walk through the rainforest, you will never look at the environment in quite the same way!
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In this day of age starting to go bald and thin on top doesn’t forever mean that you yourself will have to walk around your borough with a wig. The techniques to help balding blokes has evolved incredibly over the last three years that ladies are coming across techniques that will actually create hair growth.
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