Sentences with phrase «called niobium»

Though this round of naming seems to have gone off without a hitch, other dramatic battles over element names have been waged in the past, from the hundred - year - long battle over the element now called niobium to the Transfermium Wars of the 1960s.

Not exact matches

The plan calls for using four pairs of «test masses» made of at least three different materials — such as beryllium, niobium and platinum - iridium — which would be kept in a vacuum and cooled to just a few kelvins, reducing temperature fluctuations that can degrade measurement accuracy.

Vinokur and his colleagues observed the phenomenon, called the charge Berezinskii - Kosterlitz - Thouless (BKT) transition, in a microscopically thin film of superconducting niobium titanium nitrite.