Are titanium and liquid metal tennis rackets really different?
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They are different, but not that different. Almost all rackets are 90% or more graphite. Rackets that say "titanium" are still almost all graphite. Same with liquidmetal. \nLiquidmetal is a newer technology (it replaced titanium rackets in the Head line of rackets) and for many, gives players a bigger sweet spot, more stability and some added power. Head still uses Liquidmetal in their Flexpoint line, although it is not the main selling point anymore.\nEven without knowing the exact titanium racket you are looking at for $50, I would think the Liquidmetal racket would be the better choice, even at $80. Originally, Liquidmetal rackets sold for $100-200, so $80 is a good deal.
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There's a perfect racket for every player. It's not all marketing mumbo-jumbo. A correct racket is able to enhance your game just as much as an inappropriate racket can make you loose pwer or control and force you to alter your normal technique - often leading to elbow/shoulder/wrist injuries. The best way to choose the right racket for you is to TAKE YOUR TIME. Demo as many models as you can and use each one at least 3 or 4 hours of play before being bale to make a qualified decision on how good it really is for your style. If you are indeed an intermediate player, I would not recommend the N-Code 6 Federer racket. It is a racket designed for players who have huge swings (ie: lots of power) and need a frame that gives them a little more control. I suspect that the nCode 4.O might be more appropriate. \n\nAll the best
987379
This is when I always wonder. Various brands make fairway same as drivers using Titanium, but Nike and Titleist make fairway woods with iron. I don't know why  there's need for Titanium as it so light, can't feel the club heads and need to change from swinging it to hitting it.
905523
The fact that they are both liquid at room temperature doesn't have any effect on whether they are metalic or not.  Mercury has metallic properties, Bromine doesn't.  Therefore Mercury is metal and Bromine isn't.
332805
You may not have been around during the moonballing era at the French Open, but that was surely the most boring of times.\nAs for today, the big matches are still exciting, but perhaps less so than a decade or two ago. The big difference, in my view, has nothing to do with your premise about modeling and acting, however, or about their focus. The big difference is twofold: first, players have converged on a single style of play with minor variations. That style is the power baseline, power serve game. No more McEnroes, Edbergs, Navritolovas. This means that we are usually watching less interesting tactical matchups.\nSecond, there are few of the intense rivalries of before. We had McEnroe vs. Conners vs. Borg; Graf vs. Seles; Evert vs. Navratilova; Agassi vs. Sampras. Right now we are missing the enduring rivalries, although I don't see that as a permanent situation.\nSo, on the whole, I agree that tennis is slightly less exciting than early, bur for different reasons.
186617
It all depends on what your requirements are.  A titanium sponge is NOT superior in many applications.
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Titanium is used for a lot of things because of its unique properties.  For structural things, like aircraft parts or bicycle frames, it is usually alloyed with aluminum and vanadium because it is far too brittle in its pure form.  Even alloyed, titanium will not bend much before breaking (unlike mild steel or aluminum, which are very ductile).  This one of the reasons surgeons use it for bone pins and the like.  The extreme hardness and lack of ductility are common to most metals that have the same face centered hexagonal crystal structure (the arrangement of atoms in bulk material) more ductile metals tend to have cubic crystal structures.  \nIt is stronger than steel by weight, but not necessarily by volume, though it beats aluminum on both counts.  \n\nOne of the reasons you don't see it in more places is that it is very expensive to refine and work with.  Casting it requires much higher temperatures than steel and it is very sensitive to impurities so it is difficult to weld.  It is very hard so it is difficult to machine or cold-form.
828786
i would not bother with hundred pound rackets ,been there done that. suggest you buy two at 40 quid each and get the lightest you can get. browning big gun is what i play with
475302
I have a really nice Head racquet I bought from Dick's Sporting Goods. It's one of their Titanium Light series. It was only $60.
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if youre talking about tennis.....\n\ni'd definitly say continental is best for serving\n\nyou get a nice slice on it and you get my snap action with the wrist
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There's a few problems with titanium and the shuttle\n\n- the shuttle was designed decades ago, titanium would not have been a viable solution for a shuttle fleet at that time.\n\n- aluminum alloys are anywhere from 30% to 50% lighter than titanium which makes a tremendous difference in launch weight and a cost-to-orbit dollar figure.\n\n- titanium is notoriously difficult to work with.  The time and expertise that it takes to manufacture and weld titanium would have signficantly increased the cost of the shuttle fleet.\n\n\nSo that probably best answers why titanium wasn't used.\n\nThe answer to the second question .. 'would titantium have lasted long enough to make a difference?"  .. is 'Yes, titanium most likely would have made a difference ... but probably only a slight one."\n\nThe maximum temperatures reached during reentry are about 2300 degrees F along the nose and leading edges of the wing.  It's in these areas that the special RCC (reinforced carbon-carbon) tiles are used and where a hole was punctured by foam.\n\nThe melting point of titanium is 3135 degrees F.  So it would not have melted the way that the aluminum frame did. However, there would still have been issues with control wiring, hydraulics for control surfaces, hydraulics for the wheel, the landing gear and wheel itself, etc.  Not all of these components could have been manufactured from titanium.  The shuttle may not have disintegrated in mid-air, but it probably would have flown out of control, or impacted the earth, or cartwheeled without one of its landing gear, etc.
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i thought it was used in tennis when you play one vs two.... i could be wrong though
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Here ya go!!!\nhttp://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=48141&page=1
841673
I doubt there are any official safety rules in tennis.  Check usta.com.
313469
It is wimbledon that has the speed machine and the score board that is from rolex.\nI mean, a big tennis tournament has to have this kind of technology.
537374
The same as any other tennis rackets....Lawn tennis just means it is played on grass
528074
Titanium is amongst them. Tungsten and wolfram too. That's all i can think off right now.