Ethyl Lactate. Ethyl Lactate is an environmentally benign solvent. Lactate esters have found industrial applications in specialty coatings, inks, cleaners and standard cleaning products. The solvent market is estimated at between 3.5 to 4.5 million tonnes per year, at prices ranging from US$ 2.00 to US$ 3.75 per kilo.io-solvents are progressively replacing petrochemical solvents and ethyl lactate serves as a biodegradable and non-toxic solvent which is sought after especially in the field of microelectronics and complies with the quality demands of the semiconductor industry.
Titanium is very expensive because it is awkward to extract from its ores-for example, from rutile, TiO2. You can't use carbon reduction Titanium can't be extracted by reducing the ore using carbon as a cheap reducing agent.t has a relatively low density (about 60% that of iron). It is also the tenth most commonly occurri â¦ ng element in the Earth's crust. That all means that titanium should be a really important metal for all sorts of engineering applications. In fact, it is very expensive and only used for rather specialised purposes.
Titanium and its alloys have a very favourable strength to mass ratio. They are also resistant to corrosion because their surface develops a thin, but very resilient, oxide layer. Thus they are used where strength, lightness and resistance to corrosion are important.