The black zirconium oxide case evokes the ceramic disc brakes found in Mercedes-Benz AMG cars.
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Typically, zirconium and hafnium are contained in zircon at a ratio of about 50 to 1.
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Thus when we make the zirconium to make reactors out of we have to extract the Hf.
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They have worked with oxides of iron, aluminium, zirconium, titanium and copper.
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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Rather than being magnesium based it seems to be zirconium with copper, nickel and niobium (that latter in only one formulation I think).
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This meant likely degradation of their zirconium alloy cladding, the possible release of hydrogen, and - by Tepco's admission - the risk that a nuclear chain reaction could begin.
"There's an entire industry to create, from distributing interactive ads to billing to getting product to the person who points and clicks on cubic-zirconium jewelry they've got to have, " he says.
Hafnium and zirconium are chemically very similar indeed.
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Having repeated the same trick with 30 different sets of three elements, Dr van Dover and his team have found a mixture of zirconium, titanium and tin oxides that may, with more work, fit the bill.
"There's an entire industry to create, from distributing interactive ads to billing to getting product to the people who point and click on cubic-zirconium jewelry they've got to have, " he says, referring to the burgeoning TV home-shopping industry.
Sweden's Sandvik (6.6, SDVKY) fell 70% in the bear market as the recession whacked sales of its metal-cutting, mining and construction tools as well as specialty alloys based on titanium and zirconium, used in thousands of applications like boiler tubes and flanges.
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