How to Use hafnium in a Sentence

hafnium

noun

• This turned out to be a layer of hafnium oxynitride just eight atoms thick.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 11 July 2019
• But today who needs to know the capital of South Dakota or the atomic number of hafnium (Pierre and 72)?
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
• At this point, the whole device is covered with a thin layer of hafnium oxide, an insulator that provided a bit of space between the gate and the rest of the hardware.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2022
• In between the blocks, the researchers placed a seven-nanometer layer of a mix of titanium oxide and hafnium oxide.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2018
• What Spencer and his colleagues found is that oxygen isotopes as well as the pair of hafnium and lutetium isotopes begin to correlate in magma formed after the explosion of land plants.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2022
• To avoid this issue, Barfod and her colleagues decided to look into the relative ratios of isotopes of the element hafnium.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2020
• Glenn is developing an alloy of nickel, titanium and hafnium to manipulate flaps, winglets, rudders and other parts in air and space.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• Under normal circumstances, the titanium/hafnium oxide layer would act like an insulator and block current flow at the intersection of the copper wires.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2018
• Per the paper, the analysis determined that ratios of hafnium isotopes can be used to differentiate Alexandrian glass from Levantine glass decolorized with manganese.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2020
• The same company whose parent business patented and commercialized stainless steel in the U.S. is moving on to jet engines, titanium, hafnium and other high-performance materials.
  — Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2022
• One notable example was the discovery of three particularly rare elements found — hafnium, uranium and tungsten.
  — Fox News, 1 Aug. 2019
• The firm's Rare Metals division produces, reclaims, refines, and markets high-value niche metals and compounds that include gallium, indium, rhenium, tantalum, niobium, and hafnium.
  — Moneyshow, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• And many metals have production losses of 95 percent or higher: arsenic, gallium, germanium, hafnium, scandium, selenium, and tellurium.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022
• Hafnium is especially interesting, as semiconductor manufacturers have been using hafnium oxide as an insulator in their transistors.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024