Niobium
Published on Nov 23, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
HISTORY OF ELEMENT
- Discovered by Charles Hatchett in 1801
- Used by English people for light bulbs
- Used by Niobe, a Greek princess for jewelry
- Symbol started out as Cb than moved to Nb
- Symbol came to be from Greek mythology princess named Niobe daughter of Tantalus.
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PROPERTIES OF ELEMEMT
- Boiling point 5017
- Melting point 2750
- Ductile
- Grey and metallic
- Reactive with sodium and fluorine
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EXPLANATION OF PROPERTIES
- It's boiling point is how hot it will get.
- It's melting point is how low it has to get to melt.
- Ductile means it is able to be stretched.
- Grey and metallic means the color that it is and the feel of it.
- And reactive with Sodium and Fluorine means it is reactive and with these two elements.
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USE OF NIOBIUM #1
- Jewelry
- It is used in specific types of jewelry like earrings and necklaces.
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USE OF NIOBIUM #2
- Used in pipeline construction
- Niobium increases the toughness, strength, and formability of the pipe.
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USE OF NIOBIUM #3
- They use it in arc-welding.
- It has a high dialect constant and is able to hold and store electrical charges.
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USE OF NIOBIUM #4
- Used in tattooing or body art.
- Because this element has a bluish color it is used in body art.
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USE OF NIOBIUM #5
- Lastly is is used for medical purposes.
- Because of it's alloys being solid it is used in medicine for hypoallergenic medications.
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SOURCES OF NIOBIUM
- Areas where it is found in the U.S. is Massachusetts.
- Other countries it is found in are Brazil, Canada, Nigeria, Australia, and central Africa.
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SOURCES CONTINUED
- It is mostly mined it Brazil and when they do it they copper filter it.
- The cost of it is 18 dollars per 100 grams that you get.
- The state that it was found in was Massachusetts in the United States.
- Niobium is pure and is not an ore.
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OTHER INTERESTING INFO
- Niobium was first called Columbium with a symbol of Cb.
- Back then it was used for lamp filaments by the people of England.
- The man who sent the information to England was John Winthrop a governor in the U.S.
- Niobium's shell arrangement is a weird one and it is 2,8,18,12,1.
- Some of niobium is also used for optical reasons to make lenses for glasses.
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