On this chart they seem to have global reserves of hafnium at 1, 124 tonnes.

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Typically, zirconium and hafnium are contained in zircon at a ratio of about 50 to 1.

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You will note that there are no statistics for world production of hafnium.

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Using hafnium insulators, Intel has built prototype chips that are 45 nanometers wide and run Windows, Mac OS X and Linux software.

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Intel's new insulator replaces silicon dioxide with a metallic alloy called hafnium.

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For metals such as hafnium and indium, recycling is the only way to extend the lifetime of critical sectors of the electronics industry.

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In 96 tiny wells robotic arms mixed variations of molecules containing nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur with metals such as zirconium, titanium and hafnium.

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This alloy isn't new--it's been used as a neutron absorber in nuclear power plants--but hafnium's use as a chip insulator required a fabrication breakthrough.

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The first they dealt with by coating the top of the device with oxides of hafnium, molybdenum and titanium, in layers about 100 nanometres thick.

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And further that hafnium is going to run out in 2017.

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Hafnium and zirconium are chemically very similar indeed.

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Here are the USGS numbers for hafnium.

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And terbium and hafnium are produced as byproducts.

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Wake up and smell the Hafnium.

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With hafnium this problem is even worse.

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Ah, OK: 2% of zircon is hafnium.

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