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Is obtained as a by-product in refining molybdenum
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rhenium
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Rhenium is a chemical element with symbol Re and atomic number 75. It is a silvery-white, heavy, third-row transition metal in group 7 of the periodic table . With an estimated average concentration of 1 part per billion (ppb), rhenium is one of the rarest ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1925, Modern Latin, from Latin Rhenus "the river Rhine" (see Rhine ) + element ending -ium . Coined by German chemists Walter Noddack and Ida Tacke.
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n. A metallic chemical element (''symbol'' Re) with an atomic number of 75.
WordNet
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n. a rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys; is obtained as a by-product in refining molybdenum [syn: Re , atomic number 75 ]
Usage examples of rhenium.
I got my hands on a supply of rhenium that I began to make any progress.
By exciting rhenium molecules with heat and light and a catalyst, I came out slightly on the plus side, gained a bit more energy than was expended in creating it.
I was about ready to give up when I decided to hit a few molecules of rhenium with antimatter, and as a result we almost lost Los Angeles.
That was done within ninety days, for somehow Oscar Kost had been able to buy the necessary rhenium from Canada, Australia, and even from Brazil.
Hamilton began to hope either that the Communist scientists had missed the significance of rhenium or that they had accumulated the metal out of sheer cussedness, simply because, for some reason, the United States wanted it.
There might be considerable rhenium lying around in junkyards and salvage depots as part of discarded electrical equipment.
Gathered up almost two pounds of rhenium from old contact and bearing points and thermocouples.
Harry Shaw had set up a plant out in Utah to purify the rhenium that, since the news media had made a hero of young Clay Girard, was coming in very well from the salvage efforts.
Clay and Jumper flown by Airdart to Desert Haven to see why the rhenium was needed.
She arrived just as a few molecules of rhenium were bombarded with a few particles of antimatter.
The fresh tomatoes, he knew, would be worth their weight in rhenium when they ripened.
He had not told them that there was rhenium fuel for only one more lightstep, the relatively short step to the companion star.
We feel that the energy released is proportional to the number of antimatter particles used in the bombardment, not to the size of the rhenium mass.
The accidental discovery, during the trip out, that the ship could take lightstep with much less rhenium than first theorized, would allow them to make the trip back to Earth with an amount of fuel tons less than originally believed needed, and the trip would be cut to next to no time through the ability to lightstep from planetary orbit.
He only knew that streams of antimatter particles were coming from the Drive housing and causing the stored rhenium to heat up.