Niobium - useful at high & low temperatures
Elemental
English - August 11, 2019 20:00 - 9 minutes - 9.12 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsScience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Niobium is a metal that is useful at both very high temperatures, as in jet engines, and very low temperatures as a superconductor, says Allan Blackman from AUT in ep 53 of Elemental.