Technology Metals – Less Known Facts
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Technology Metals – Less Known Facts
Technology metals - strictly speaking, they aren’t rare. Considering their circulation over
the earth’s crust, technology metals avail in good quantity. Alongside copper, technology
metals are twenty-fifth most abundant element discovered in the earth’s crust. Though
these metals are widely spread, it is practically tough to discover enough of them
concentrated in 1 locality. Here in this post, we will talk about few less known facts
about technology metals:
There’re seventeen technology metals including Scandium, Yttrium, Cerium,
Lanthanum, Praseodymium, Neodymium, Promethium, Europium, Samarium,
Terbium, Gadolinium, Dysprosium, Holmium, Thulium, Erbium, Lutetium and
Ytterbium.
Their names enlighten stories of their source. Technology metals are named after the
people who founded them, for example, Samarium; the place where they were found
first.
Technology metal took a long
expedition to discovery. It took
nearly a hundred years prior to all
recognized tech metals were founded,
from the finding of "ytterbite" in
1787 to the 1940s when a chemical
method was eventually developed
which productively separated and
sieved technology metals.
Tech metals were taken from
other associated minerals. Many of
the tech metals were acquired from
other minerals. For instance, Carl
Gustav Mosander derived 3 oxides
from Ytteria and came up with
Erbium, Terbium and Yttrium.
They are causing controversy in some countries of the globe. Mining technology
metals increases environmental & geo-political problems particularly in Malaysia
and China where they’re mined heavily. In Malaysia, the problem is with the
technique the mining wastes are managed, which affects neighbouring towns and
villages with accounted cases of birth flaws. In China, they’re cautiously
considering restricting the mining of tech metals to stop over-exploitation.
Tech metals are important to the technology industry. They’re employed for
aerospace components, nuclear batteries, microwave filters, lasers, MRI contrast
agents, battery electrodes, high-refractive index glass, etc.
They possess a higher demand in the international market. Because of
their extensive use in technology, they boast a higher price in the
market, to such an extent that they’ve a diverse pricing compared
to gold and other costly metals.
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