How to Use niobium in a Sentence

niobium

noun

• 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
• 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
• Instead, it's made from niobium, a rare element with a high melting point.
  — Eric Niiler, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• It is made from a C-103 niobium alloy, a fairly strong material.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 June 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• One answer is niobium, a metal almost exclusively supplied by the South American country.
  — Mark Olalde, USA TODAY, 11 July 2020
• 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
• Other elements commonly found in modern stainless steel knives include nickel, cobalt, manganese, silicon, niobium, tungsten, and even copper.
  — Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024