“That’s almost all gold. The rest…No, I don’t believe it.” “It is,” said his canary dæmon from his wrist. “I can tell now. It’s titanium.” “Aye. I thought so too. But that’s impossible,” Gwyn said. “They never discovered titanium till about two hundred years ago, and I never heard of a gold alloy of it.”
The alethiometer -------- The three hands that Lyra could move with the wheels were made of some black metal. The needle that moved by itself was a lighter color, a sort of stormy gray. She and Will had noticed its resemblance to the color of the blade of the subtle knife, but they had found out nothing about that; even Iorek Byrnison, who reforged the blade when it shattered, had to admit that he had no idea what it was.
