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Did you go to Cornwall where titanium (manaccanite) was discovered?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POphxfF7S0E

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Fair enough. It's funny to see how the search for new elements has changed over the course of 3 centuries. The plaque commemorating where it was discovered is on the side of a tiny dry stone wall cottage in a village of maybe 100 people next to a stream. And all you had to do was notice some black sand responded to a magnet. Now you need to get through security gates to even enter the acres of facilities where the huge accelerators are that allow us to make new elements, and you require billions of dollars of funding to set up the equipment and research groups.