| Bi |
Bismuth # 931083 | Bismuth is a white, crystalline, brittle metal with a pinkish tinge. Bismuth is the most diamagnetic of all metals, and the thermal conductivity is lower than any metal, except mercury. It has a high electrical resistance, and has the highest Hall effect of any metal (that is, the greatest increase in electrical resistance when placed in a magnetic field |
| Ce |
Cerium # 931058 | Metallic Cerium is prepared by reduction techniques, such as by reducing cerous fluoride with calcium, or by electrolysis of molten cerous chloride or other cerous halides. Cerium is an iron-grey lustrous metal. |
| Cr |
Chromium # 931024 | Chromium is steel-gray, lustrous, hard, metallic, and takes a high polish. it is used to harden steel, to manufacture stainless steel, and to form alloys, in plating to produce a hard, beautiful surface and to prevent corrosion |
| Dy |
Dysprosium # 931066 | Dysprosium has a metallic, bright silver lustre. It is relatively stable in air at room temperature, but dissolves readily, with the evolution of hydrogen, in mineral acids. It is a rare earth metal found in minerals such as xenotime, monazite and bastnaesite. |
| Er |
Erbium # 931068 | Erbium metal is soft and malleable and has a bright, silvery, metallic lustre. As with other rare-earth metals, its properties depend to a certain extent on impurities present. The metal is fairly stable in air and does not oxidise as rapidly as some of the other rare-earth metals, mainly metallurgical uses |
| Gd |
Gadolinium # 931064 | Gadolinium is silvery white, has a metallic lustre, and is is malleable and ductile. It is ferromagnetic (strongly attracted by a magnet), ductile and malleable metal, and widely used for making speciality alloys, MRI(magnetic Resonance Imaging), superconductive materials and magnetic refrigerator. |
| Ge |
Germanium # 931032 | Germanium is a gray-white metalloid, and in its pure state is crystalline and brittle, retaining its lustre in air at room temperature. It is a very important semiconductor material. |
| Hf |
Hafnium # 931072 | Hafnium is a ductile metal with a brilliant silver lustre, has a good absorption cross section for thermal neutrons, has excellent mechanical properties, and is extremely corrosion resistant; it is used as electrode of plasma source. |
| Ho |
Holmium # 931067 | Holmium Metal, is mainly used for making speciality alloys and superconductive materials. Holmium is relatively soft and malleable, and is stable in dry air at room temperature. It oxidises rapidly in moist air and at elevated temperatures. |
| In |
Indium # 931049 | Indium is a very soft, silvery-white metal with a brilliant lustre. The pure metal gives a high-pitched "scream" when bent. Indium is used in making bearing alloys, germanium transistors, rectifiers, thermistors, and photoconductors; and used in solders and etc. |
| Ir |
Iridium # 931077 | Iridium is a hard, brittle, lustrous, dense, transition metal of the Platinum family. It is silvery-white and it is notable for being the most corrosion resistant element known. It is unaffected by air, water and acids. |
| La |
Lanthanum # 931057 | Lanthanum is one of the most reactive of the rare-earth metals. Lanthanum Metal is the very important raw materials in producing Hydrogen Storage Alloys for NiMH batteries, and is also used to produce other pure Rare Earth metals and specialty alloys. |
| Lu |
Lutetium # 931071 | Lutetium metal is silvery white and relatively stable in air; is the hardest metal of the rare-earths; used as important additive to some specialty alloy. Stable lutetium can be used as catalysts in petroleum cracking in refineries and can also be used in alkylation, hydrogenation, and polymerization applications. |
| Mo |
Molybdenum # 931042 | Molybdenum is a silvery-white, hard, transition metal; valuable alloying agent (contributes to the hardenability and toughness of quenched and tempered steels); improves the strength of steel at high temperatures; electrodes for electrically heated glass furnaces. |
| Nd |
Neodymium # 931060 | Neodymium Metal is mainly used in manufacturing very powerful permanent magnets-Neodymium-Iron-Boron magnets, and also are applied in making specialty superalloy and sputtering targets. |
| Nb |
Niobium # 931041 | Niobium is a shiny, white, soft, and ductile metal, and takes on a bluish tinge when exposed to air at room temperatures for a long time. The metal has a low capture crosssection for thermal neutrons and so finds use in the nuclear industries. The metal is used in arc-welding rods for some grades of stainless steel. It is used in advanced engineering systems;Some magnets contain niobium and superconductive magnets are made with Nb-Zr alloy wire. |
| Pr |
Praseodymium # 931059 | Praseodymium Metal, is used as high-strength alloying agent in the magnesium used in parts of aircraft engines. It is an important alloying agent in Neodymium-Iron-Boron magnets. Praseodymium is available in many forms including foil, powder, rod, sponge, bar, sheet, and wire. |
| Re |
Rhenium # 931075 | Rhenium is a silvery metal but rarely seen as such on account of its high melting point, which is the third highest after Carbon and Tungsten. Rhenium is very hard, it resists corrosion but slowly tarnishes in moist air. |
| Sm |
Samarium # 931062 | Samarium has a bright silver lustre and is reasonably stable in air. Samarium Metal is primarily utilized in the production of Samarium-Cobalt (Sm2Co17) permanent magnets with one of the highest resistances to demagnetization known. High purity Samarium Metal is also used in making speciality alloy and sputtering targets. |
| Sc |
Scandium # 931021 | Scandium Metal is a silvery-white metal, and resembles yttrium and the rare-earth metals more than it resembles aluminium or titanium.Scandium Metal is widely applied in making speciality alloys, it increase the strengths of alloys of metals such as chromium, aluminium, and magnesium. |
| Ta |
Tantalum # 931073 | Tantalum is a greyish silver, heavy, and very hard metal. When pure, it is ductile and can be drawn into fine wire, which can be used as a filament for evaporating metals such as aluminium. It is used to make steels with desirable properties such as high melting point, high strength, good ductility. It is very inert and so useful in the chemical and nuclear industries to line reactors. |
| Tb |
Terbium # 931065 | Terbium Metal is the important additive for NdFeB permanent magnets to raise the Curie temperature and improve temperature coefficiency. Another most promising use of distilled Terbium Metal, is in the magnetostrictive alloy. There are also other applications for some special master alloys. |
| Tm |
Thulium # 931069 | Natural thulium has possible use in ferrites (ceramic magnetic materials) used in microwave equipment, superalloys. The element is silvery-grey, soft, malleable, and ductile, and can be cut with a knife. It is a rare earth metal found in minerals such as monazite. |
| Ti |
Titanium # 931069 | Titanium is used for alloys with with aluminium, molybdenum, manganese, iron, and other metals. These alloys of titanium are used principally in the aerospace industry, for both airframes and engines, where lightweight strength and ability to withstand extremes of temperature are important. |
| W |
Tungsten # 931074 | Tungsten is available in many forms including foil, powder, rod, nanosized activated powder, sheet, disc, plate, wire and etc.; tungsten and its alloys are used extensively for filaments for electric lamps, electron and television tubes, and for metal evaporation work, windings and heating elements for electrical furnaces; high-speed tool steels... |
| V |
Vanadium # 931023 | Pure vanadium is a greyish silvery metal, and is soft and ductile. It has good corrosion resistance to alkalis, sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and salt waters. Industrially, most vanadium produced is used as an additive to improve steels. Its structural strength and neutron cross section properties makes it useful in nuclear applications. |
| Yb |
Ytterbium # 931070 | Ytterbium Metal, is being applied in improving the grain refinement, strength, and other mechanical properties of stainless steel and alloys. Ytterbium has a bright silvery lustre, is soft, malleable, and quite ductile. While the element is fairly stable. |
| Y |
Yttrium # 931039 | Yttrium Metal is widely applied in making speciality alloys, it increase the strengths of alloys of metals such as chromium, aluminium, and magnesium. Yttrium oxide is used to produce yttrium-iron-garnets, which are very effective microwave filters yttrium iron, aluminum, and gadolinium garnets have interesting magnetic properties. |
| Zr |
Zirconium # 931040 | Zirconium is a greyish-white lustrous metal. The metal is used in the nuclear industry for cladding fuel elements since it has a low absorption cross section for neutrons. It is also used extensively by the chemical industry where corrosive agents are employed. The metal is used as an alloying agent in steel and for making surgical appliances. The metal superconducts at low temperatures and zirconium/niobium alloys are used to make superconductor magnets. |
