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Copper
With high heat and electricity conductivity, and the malleable and ductile nature, copper is often used as the material for electric wire and cables. It can also be used in alloys and chemical compounds.
Lead
Lead is very heavy, soft, and easy to process. It is often used in substrates of rechargeable batteries, machines for the chemical industry, solder, and buckshot.
Tin
Tin is a metal with silver grayish luster that can be used as tin plates and solders, as well as in plating,…etc.
Nickel
Nickel is a ferromagnetic silver-whitish metal. It is used as additives in stainless steels and other special steels, and in plating and as catalysts.
Zinc
Zinc is a blue-whitish metal and is fragile in room temperature. It is widely used in zinc steel plates, plating, die-casting…etc.
Antimony
Although antimony is very fragile, it has the special trait of stiffen up other metals when added into them. It is used in lead battery plates, solders, Babbitt metals,. cosmetics, medicines…etc. China is a main producing country.
Bismuth
Bismuth is a silver-whitish and a bit florid metal, and it is hard and fragile, with a low melting point. It is rare to mine just for bismuth, and it is often gathered as a byproduct from lead refining. It is used in medicines and lead-free solders…etc.
Cadmium
Cadmium is a soft blue-whitish metal, and is a by-product from zinc refining. It is used in things such as nickel-cadmium batteries, alloys, and color pigments.
Chromium
Chromium is a hard silver-whitish metal with strong magnetism. It is used in things such as additives in special steels, and plating.
Cobalt
Cobalt is a metal with strong magnetism and corrosion resistance. It is used in things such as permanent magnet and additives in special steels.
Gallium
Gallium is a soft metal with very low melting point. It is used in things such as additives in semi-conductors and electric contacts.
Germanium
Germanium is silver-whitish and fragile. It is used in transistors, diodes, and rectifiers…etc.
Hafnium
Hafnium has excellent corrosion and heat resistance. Development was behind due to the difficulty to separate it from zirconium, but it is now used in control materials of nuclear reactors, rockets, and additives in alloys…etc.
Indium
Indium is silver-whitish and very soft. It is a byproduct from lead and zinc refining. It is used in things such as flat panel displays and transistors.
Molybdenum
Molybdenum is a metal with silver-whitish gloss. It is hard in room temperature and ordinary pressures, but has malleability and ductility in high temperatures. It is used in things such as additives in special steels and catalysts.
Niobium
Niobium has heat and corrosion resistance and is excellent in its workability. It always coexists with tantalum in nature. It is used in electrolysis condensers, atomic fuel and dressing, additives in alloys…etc.
Selenium
Selenium is a metal with many allotropes, and it is usually collected as a byproduct of copper refining. It is used in things such as rectifier and colorants.
Silicon
Silicon is a dark gray crystal and its quantity in the earth crust is next to oxygen. It is used in transistors, diodes, and solar cells…etc.
Tantalum
Tantalum is very workable and corrosion resistant, and can also be used as substitutes of platinum. It is used in electrolysis condensers, electronic devices, and chemical equipments…etc.
Tellurium
Tellurium is a metal with silver-whitish gloss, and its chemical characteristics are similar to selenium. It is collected as a bi-product from sources such as copper and lead electrolysis. It is used in colorants and thermoelectric conversion elements.
Thallium
Thallium is a soft blue-whitish metal and is collect as a by-product from lead and zinc refining. It is used in additives in glass, bug killers, and medical purposes.
Titanium
Titanium is extremely hard, heat and corrosion resistant. Although deposit amount is abundant, it is categorized as a rare metal because it’s hard to refine. It is used widely in areas such as aircrafts, additives in alloys, and optical equipments.
Tungsten
Tungsten is a very hard and heavy metal, with the highest melting point within metals. It is used in light bulb filaments and alloys with nickel and cobalt.
Vanadium
Vanadium is a slightly grey, silver-whitish metal. It is very heat resistant and has a higher melting point than nickel, cobalt, silicon…etc. It is used in things such as additives in special steels, aircrafts, constructional material of missiles, and catalysts. It is unevenly distributed in South Africa, China, Russia, and the Americas.
Zirconium
Zirconium is a metal with a high melting point and corrosion resistance. It is used as fuel rods in nuclear reactors, electron tubes, and materials for chemical equipments.
Gold
Gold is very heavy and soft. It is rich in malleability, electrical conductivity, and corrosion resistance. It is used in conductor components, dental materials, catalysts, and computer circuits…etc.
Silver
Silver has the highest heat and electrical conductivity within metals, and is used in electric contacts, plating, jewelries, and dental materials.
Palladium
Palladium is a silver-whitish precious metal. It is mostly used as alloys with other precious metals, for dental purposes, decoration purposes, and as electric contacts.
Platinum
Platinum is very heavy and is excellent in corrosion and acid resistance. It is used in electronic devices, catalysts, dental materials, and decorations…etc.
Rhenium
Rhenium has a very high melting point, and is heat and corrosion resistant. It is used in catalysts, filaments, and thermoelectric couples.
Rhodium
Rhodium is a precious metal. Similar to other platinum metals like osmium and iridium, its production is extremely small. It can be used in catalysts, plating, and electric contacts.
Ruthenium
Ruthenium is a hard and fragile metal. It is used in catalysts and hardening agents for metals.
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