Tag: Zirconium

How to Choose a Pair of Titanium Glasses?

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How to Choose a Pair of Titanium Glasses? Titanium is widely used in the eyewear industry because of its excellent properties, including resistance to deformation and discoloration, as well as strong stability, etc. Spectacle frames made of titanium can be divided into three types: pure titanium, titanium alloy, and beta-titanium frames. The following is to […]

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How Is Titanium Used in Automotive Lightweight?

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How Is Titanium Used in Automotive Lightweight? Titanium and titanium alloy has the characteristics of low density, excellent mechanical properties, good biocompatibility, corrosion resistance, high-temperature resistance, and good low-temperature toughness. At present, they have been widely used in automobile manufacturing. In this article, we will take a look at how is titanium used in automotive lightweight. The density of titanium […]

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What Is the Most Refractory Metal in the World?

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What Is the Most Refractory Metal in the World? In the non-ferrous metal family, tungsten has maintained the title of “High-Temperature Champion” for hundreds of years. The first person in the world to discover tungsten was the Swedish chemist Seller. He first decomposed tungstic acid with acid in 1781 to obtain tungsten. Then, after a […]

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Why Is Zirconium Used In Nuclear Reactors?

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Why Is Zirconium Used In Nuclear Reactors? Zirconium is a rare metal with amazing corrosion resistance, high melting point, high hardness, and strength. It is widely used in aerospace, military, nuclear reaction, and atomic energy fields. In the video below, there is an experiment that explains why zirconium used in nuclear reactors. Initially, zirconium was […]

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What Is the Most Refractory Material in the World?

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What Is the Most Refractory Material in the World? When asked about the material with the highest melting point in the world, many people would say “Tungsten.” But I want to tell you that this answer is only half right. As we all know, tungsten is a pure metal with the highest melting point in […]

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Zirconium Metal: The Magic Industrial Vitamin

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Zirconium Metal: The Magic Industrial Vitamin Zirconium metal is widely used in the fields of aerospace, military industry, nuclear reaction, and atomic energy. Generally, titanium products used in spacecraft with high corrosion resistance are far inferior to zirconium, whose melting point is around 1600 degrees, while that of zirconium is above 1800 degrees, and the […]

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Brief Analysis of Applications of the Zirconia Refractories

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Brief Analysis of Applications of the Zirconia Refractories With the rapid development of the iron & steel industry and the requirement of improving the performance of electronic components, zirconia refractories are more and more applied. Zirconia is a very stable refractory oxide, and the relevant research shows that the melting temperature of which is 2680 ℃. In this article, […]

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The Discovery of Zirconium

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The Discovery of Zirconium In this article, we will take a look at the discovery of zirconium. The naming of zirconium is based on zircon. As early as a few centuries ago, zircon has been used as jewelry. The Bible said that zircon is one of the 12 kinds of precious stones worn by the high […]

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Why Is Zirconium A Transition Metal?

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Why Is Zirconium A Transition Metal? When of sufficient purity, zirconium is soft and ductile. Zirconium a transition metal has good corrosion resistance and low absorption capacity for thermal neutrons. These properties are desirable in materials used for certain parts of nuclear reactors. The great increase in the production of zirconium since 1945 has been […]

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How Refractory Metals were Discovered and Developed?

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How Refractory Metals were Discovered and Developed? In today’s article, we’ll take a look at how refractory metals were discovered and developed. Refractory metals are referred to elements or alloys with melting points over 3002℉, such as tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, niobium, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, chromium, rhenium and alloys including tungsten alloys, molybdenum alloys, niobium […]

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