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Tantalum Ta

 

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

 

Samarskite (YCeFeU)3(NbTiTa)5O16 Webb mine, Yancy County, North Carolina, USA viewed during a Chemistry One field trip to the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, USA

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ITantalum is used in high-temperaure alloys in the combustion chambers of jet engines.  The superalloys contain niobiun, tantalum, tungsten or molybdenum.

The Pratt and Whitney jet engine in the image is one from the F-35 on display at the National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Virginia, USA

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A tantalum filament in an early light bulb viewed at the Poldhu wireless station museum in Cornwall, England (where Moaconi completed the first trans-Atlantic radio signal between Cornwall and Newfoundland, Canada.

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