NIOBIUM (Nb) - (Niobium) metal of gray-steel color.
Density of niobium is 8,57 g/sm3, fusing temperature of niobium - 2500 °С, boiling temperature of niobium - 4927 °С.
Scopes:
- niobium is applied in production of heat resisting and other alloys.
- niobium is applied for an alloying of copper, nickel and other color alloys for the purpose of the increasing its lasting quality and thermal stabilities.
- niobium is applied as an alloying additive to a steel for giving of necessary physicomechanical properties by it.
- niobium is applied for modifying increase of corrosion firmness of aluminum alloys.
- niobium is applied in titanic alloys, to increase durability and corrosion firmness.
- niobium is applied for manufacture of superfirm alloys.
- niobium is applied for manufacture of superconductors.
- niobium is applied as an additive to some alloys to increase electric conductivity, thermal conductivity, corrosion firmness, etc.
- niobium is applied for manufacturing chemically proof equipment.
- niobium is applied as catalysts.