Titanium dioxide goes quite cheap due to the fact it's the
raw material, once you get the oxide out, you get left with pure titanium, but because it's an expensive process it's the reason why titanium costs so much per 100g (which my maths is based on).
All paint contains it to some degree in one way or another, as it works out as a good filler instead of using more expensive coloured pigments so amounts do vary I agree, by this is only based on assumption with most paint formulas and is hypothetical as a bit of fun, nothing serious
And I see where I went wrong
skolirvarden haha, I'd accidentally multiplied by 2000 instead of 200. But still $360 dollars for a small amount of titanium isn't bad
And my price came from chemicool.com/elements/titanium, it is based on 100% pure titanium powder which is extremely difficult to procure. Check out sigmaaldich as well for their prices at 10g and 50g.
If it was based on forged and shaped titanium prices with impurities and additives (more likely an alloy), we're looking at $26 per kilo which changes the 2000 point army to only having $1.40 which is a bit pants....