Molybdenum is a silvery-white metal that is ductile and highly resistant to corrosion. It has one of the highest melting points of all pure elements — only the elements tantalum and tungsten have ...

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Tungsten is known as one of the toughest things found in nature. It is super dense and almost impossible to melt. Pure tungsten is a silver-white metal and when made into a fine powder can be ...

A SMALL quantity (0.11 gm.) of technetium-99 metal has recently been loaned to us by Oak Ridge Laboratories (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission) and we have taken the opportunity to measure the melting ...

Copper and Nickel form a substitutional solid solution over the complete range of possible compositions of the alloy. The equilibrium "phase diagram" opposite shows the dependence of the alloys ...