Titanium dioxide

So what else is in this tablet? There's a part on these labels, just like on food labels that say it contains 2% or less of.

Have you seen that? Well, Centrum Adults, Yellow 6 Lake, Titanium Dioxide, BHT, Talc, and polyethylene glycol.

And Symptom Silver, the version marketed to people over 50, they had Red 40 Lake and Blue 2 Lake on top of that.

Let's start with Yellow 6.

On top of that, these dyes carry a documented contamination concern with benzidine.

a known human carcinogen.

Now, titanium dioxide is a whitening agent.

Europe banned it as a food additive in 2022 after its food safety authority could not rule out that it might cause DNA damage.

get forgotten about You know, I think that it's as simple as that.

The other, when we first picked it up, the other challenge that you have is that, you know, a TiO2 grade is great if it's rutile or ilmenite, you know, and it's not great if it's anatase or titanite or something that, you know, that's not a, you know, a traditional, you know, titanium mineral.

You know, similarly, you know, a zirconium dioxide grade is, you know, is fantastic if it's zircon.

If you've got a zirconium silicate, for instance, then it's a hell of a lot more complicated, certainly, to process and to deliver into traditional uses of zircon.

So, you know, you want to be seeing that, you know, sort of grade consistency.

And then, you know, you'd love to see, you know, some three to four meter thick seams.

And the 4% TiO2, that's equivalent, right? The cutoff that you mentioned there, because what you have is, again, Ti, but you've got zirconium and so on and so forth.

So is that 4% equivalent or just 4% itself? Yeah.

It turned out not to work like we expected.

Moly carbide will reduce TiO2 and become moly oxide.

And so you never get the carbide, it turns out.

But we still did some interesting work.