Titanium Ingot

No clue, but they come even bigger...Probably for a rocket engine...

https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/titanium/mcs-2017-titan.pdf

Those ingots get rolled into plate, billet (round and square), and coil to name a few configurations. And yes, they do get bigger.

I used to work near the TIMET titanium processing plant in Henderson / Las Vegas and I have seen ingots a lot bigger than that but typically they are titanium sponge that is shipped to a processor for final shaping or forging. 8 tons is 16000 lbs and most of the time I see the tractor trailers with 4 or less so they don't go heavier than their 80000 lb road limit.

As for the coolant??? All I know is that every once in a while, Timet will have a chlorine gas leak that turns the sky green. One of their worst leaks defoliated thousands of trees in the vicinity of their plant.

Sodium Potassium alloy is a common liquid metal coolant. It has an excellent heat transfer. It does not react with steel and being a metal a seamless electromagnetic pump can be used for circulation. For obvious reasons moisture will be a concern but at the temperatures to melt titanium steam production should be avoided anyway.

A sodium-potassium eutectic is used as a coolant in titanium furnaces. Liquid metal is used instead of water to avoid a possible water/steam explosion.

Titanium : Physical Metallurgy, Processing, and Applications

Don't worry, Ti. is really light.

Just for perspective, Ti is about 4.5 g/cc ...

That means 2 metric tons (tonnes) of Titanium would be a sphere with around 0.75 m radius or a cube a little over 1.2 m on a side.

Oops!

The density of about 4.5g/cc is correct, so one cubic meter would have a mass of ≈4.5 tonnes, and 2 tonnes would have a volume of 2/4.5= 0.44 m³. The cube would be ≈0.76m on a side, and the sphere would be ≈1.02m in diameter.

oops is right. i wasn't watching what I was doing apparently. My calculation doesn't pass common sense test. It almost looks like I transposed the answers and added an erroneous zero. weird.

Thank you.

Thank you, all. I consider myself now as having been better informed.