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Rhenium Re

 

Where is rhenium used--or where does it impact your everyday life?

 

Rhenium is used for some self-cleaning ovens where temperatures reach 500 degrees C.  A catalyst, sometimes containing rhenium with other metals is used to oxidize the food spills.

Modern airplane turbine blades are made of nickel alloys--mainly nickel with chromium, cobalt, and rhenium

The photograph shows a Concorde jet engine turbine blade containing nickel, chromium and cobalt--signed by a senior pilot and on display at the Brooklands Museum in Weybridge, Surrey, UK

WIS Photographer

This jet engine is a 3% rhenium alloy.  Sketch by Max U, class of 2019 of CMFI CFM56 engine CC SA 3.0

Because of the high temperatures involved production of X rays, the tubes that produce X-rays include a tungsten-rhenium target with a molybdenum core.

The X-ray machine here is one at Inova Orthopedics in Fairfax, Virginia, USA taken by Ms. H as she recovered from her broken shoulder.

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