What Are the Uses for the Element Niobium?
stainless steel image by Tom Oliveira from Fotolia.com jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/a06/72/ni/uses-element-niobium_-1.1-800X800.jpg’); }); Niobium is used to bond stainless steel components. Niobium is a soft, gray, ductile metal extracted from the minerals columbite and pyrochlore. Niobium is lightweight with good thermal conductivity, good corrosion resistance, high mechanical strength and a high melting point. These properties make it suitable for a variety of high-temperature and high-strength industrial applications. Steel Niobium is used to bond stainless steel components. Steel manufacturers also add trace amounts of an iron-niobium compound, called ferroniobium, to products to increase their strength as well as their corrosion and temperature resistance. Niobium-based steel is used in MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) devices and to make gyroscopes for spacecrafts. Niobium is added to high-s
