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by neutrinobro 373 days ago
Buried at the end of the article:

> A limitation of this work is that the resulting de-oxygenated titanium contains yttrium, up to 1% by mass; > After solving the yttrium contamination problem, applications to industrial manufacturing will be straightforward.

One wonders how much of a problem this is for most applications, and how easy it will be to solve...