How to Use niobium in a Sentence
niobium
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Brazil is by far the world’s biggest producer of niobium, which is used to strengthen steel.
—Dionne Searcey Arin Yoon, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2023
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The case of the special edition version is made of niobium, a metal with a unique sheen that is rarely used in watchmaking.
—Carol Besler, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2022
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Instead, it's made from niobium, a rare element with a high melting point.
—Eric Niiler, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2018
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The wires of these tools are crafted from robust niobium, and encased in a protective layer of sapphire crystal tubes.
—Michelle Hampson, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2018
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In this condition, the qubits made of niobium, silicon, and aluminum are stable enough to be used for computing.
—Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2018
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The hydrogen then moves through channels (coated with niobium carbide to resist corrosion) that run through the core from top to bottom.
—Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2019
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It is made from a C-103 niobium alloy, a fairly strong material.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 June 2020
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The Estonian material, on the other hand, is a byproduct of tantalum and niobium production at a metals plant near the Baltic Sea.
—Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
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The ore contains the rare-earth metal niobium, which is used in steel production and becomes a superconductor when cooled to low temperatures.
—Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2023
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Several components of the cars themselves are made of niobium with makes for stronger, lighter and more sustainable cars, with better energy efficiency.
—Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 6 July 2022
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Not surprisingly, many of the elements that like to bond with sulfur were there: copper, lead, bismuth, tin as well as more exotic elements like lithium, uranium and niobium (the latter three at less than one part per million).
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
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The wire and wafer let the company leverage its experience building circuitry, but in this case, the wire is a mix of niobium and aluminum, which allows it to superconduct at extremely low temperatures.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2018
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But some of the money will also be spent at Boston Metal’s facility in Brazil, which uses the same technology to produce specialty metals like tin, niobium, and tantalum.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2023
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One answer is niobium, a metal almost exclusively supplied by the South American country.
—Mark Olalde, USA TODAY, 11 July 2020
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Discovered in 1911 by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, the original superconductors were chunks of elemental metals, such as mercury and niobium, cooled to a few degrees above absolute zero.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 26 Aug. 2021
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Other elements commonly found in modern stainless steel knives include nickel, cobalt, manganese, silicon, niobium, tungsten, and even copper.
—Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2020
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The control and readout wires consist of a superconducting niobium-titanium alloy, which constitutes one of the most expensive individual parts of the whole assembly, according to Pedram Roushan.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2019
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In place of the lithium-titanium oxide anodes the company uses on its current-generation lithium-ion batteries, there are titanium-niobium oxide (TNO) pieces.
—Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 23 Oct. 2017
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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
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Metallic superconductors such as pure aluminum or niobium, for example, have extremely low critical temperatures, typically only a few degrees above absolute zero.
—Jennifer Hackett, Scientific American, 17 Dec. 2015
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The new model suggests our home planet contains significantly more sodium, potassium, chlorine, zinc, strontium, fluorine, gallium, rubidium, niobium, gadolinium, tantalum, helium, argon, and krypton than previously believed.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 18 Sep. 2017
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Similarly, Rolex’s Parachrom balance spring, introduced in 2005 (niobium, zirconium, oxygen, altogether un-magnetizable), has given its watches significant advantages.
—Alex Doak, Wired, 30 Dec. 2021
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