Sentences with phrase «niobium metal»

Its flagship model, known as D - Wave Two, or Vesuvius, contains 512 superconducting loops of niobium metal, each containing a Josephson junction.

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Perth - based Globe Metals and Mining has opted to withdraw from a joint venture exploring in Mozambique to instead focus on its flagship niobium project.

Trace elements are increasingly widely used in the high - tech and medical sectors — for example, the transition metal tantalum and the semimetal germanium in electronic components, niobium and titanium in alloys and coatings, or gadolinium as a contrast medium and in luminous paints.

Each one is a quartz sphere the size of a Ping - Pong ball, smooth to within a millionth of an inch and coated with the metal niobium, which is superconducting at liquid helium temperatures.

It cools circuits made of the rare metal niobium to five - thousandths of a degree above absolute zero.

While the environmental implications of the major industrial metals (e.g., iron and copper) have been extensively studied [3], the environmental burdens of many of the minor metals (e.g., niobium, rhenium, hafnium) are essentially unknown, even though they are increasingly employed by industry.