Rhenium

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Rhenium
75 Re Rhenium 186.207
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Rhenium Uses and Properties

• Rhenium is used in
• exotic alloys
• thermocouples
• catalysts
• rocket thrusters for small satellites
• rhenium wire is used in flash photography
• thermistors
• used to treat restenosis and liver tumours.
• filaments

• Rhenium Properties
• a dense high melting silvery solid metal
• has a mild reaction with air
• it has a very high density of 21.04g/cm3
• good high temperature strength
• has a silvery-white color

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Rhenium Facts

• Rhenium is named for Rhenus which is the Latin
  word for river Rhine
• The atomic number is 75
• The chemical symbol is Re
• Rhenium was discovered by Walter Noddack, Ida
  Tacke and Otto Berg in 1925
• Rhenium metal does not normally cause problems
  but all rhenium compounds should be regarded as
  highly
• Rhenium is not found freely in nature
• It was discovered in the Rhine Region of Germany
• Among the rarest metals on earth

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silvery-white color
discovered in 1925
Properties
Discovery
Rhenium
Found in the Rhine Region of Germany
mild reaction with air
Uses
Filaments
Catalyst
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Sources

• http//www.chemicalelements.com/index.html
  www.azom.com/details.asp?ArticleID1491
• http//chemistry.allinfoabout.com/periodic/periodi
  ctable.html
• http//www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/pertable_
  fla.htm
• http//www.webelements.com/webelements/scholar/ele
  ments/periodic-table/uses.html
• http//www.chemicool.com/
• http//chemistry.about.com/library/blper5.htm
• http//www.nndc.bnl.gov/content/elements.html