It's not spun, you're just being overly literal. They're not talking about pure ...

lupusreal 16 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: FAA investigating how counterfeit titanium got int...

It's not spun, you're just being overly literal. They're not talking about pure elemental titanium, alloy is implicit here. And even if it were a matter of pure titanium, passing off an alloy as that would also make it counterfeit.