Rhenium is considered to be a critical and strategic commodity because of the metal’s applications in defense, energy, high-tech industrial, and medical sectors. In the U.S., consumption of catalyst-grade rhenium by the…
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15 Interesting Facts About Niobium
Niobium is considered to be a critical and strategic commodity because of the metal’s specialized applications in defense, energy, high-tech industrial, and medical sectors. In addition, Niobium has no effective substitutes and…
25 Interesting Facts About Manganese
Manganese is an element essential for the sovereignty of modern societies, irreplaceable and consumed in large quantities by all industrialized and developing nations. Manganese has no substitute in its major applications. Of…
20 Interesting Facts About Indium
Rising fossil fuel costs and climate change concerns have produced a global emphasis on renewable energy production and sources. Indium is a mineral critically important in the implementation of large-scale photovoltaic systems….
20 Interesting Facts About Hafnium
The United States is a net importer of hafnium and there is no U.S. government stockpile of this geopolitically-essential commodity. Importantly, world primary hafnium production data and quantitative estimates of hafnium reserves…
20 Interesting Facts About Gallium
Gallium is not produced in the United States and there is no government stockpile. U.S. gallium demand is satisfied by imports, with domestic import sources from 2014 to 2017 as: China, 32%;…
15 Interesting Facts About Cesium
The market for cesium is relatively small and world reserves are massive when compared to world demand. Because cesium supply is vast, and most cesium reserves are located in geopolitically stable countries,…
20 Interesting Facts About Bismuth
Bismuth is a brittle, crystalline, post-transition metal with unusually low levels of electrical and thermal conductivity. Bismuth also has a particularly low melting point, which enables it to form alloys important for…
20 Interesting Facts About Tungsten
Tungsten is a very dense, corrosion-resistant metal that is almost impossible to melt. In fact, tungsten has the highest melting point of all metals. Tungsten exhibits other important physical properties as well,…
20 Interesting Facts About Magnesium
Named for the Greek city of Magnesia, magnesium is an silvery-white alkaline earth metal essential for animal and plant nutrition. Magnesium in plants is located in the enzymes, in the heart of…