Copper ore, for instance, often contains molybdenum, rhenium, selenium, tellurium, along with small amounts of rare-earth elements.
Candescent's cones, made of molybdenum, are less than a millionth of a metre high and are placed about a millimetre away from the phosphors on the screen.Motorola, another company at the conference, is also interested in field-emission, but it has a more esoteric idea for creating the micro-guns.
The first they dealt with by coating the top of the device with oxides of hafnium, molybdenum and titanium, in layers about 100 nanometres thick.
Moreover, those traces are made up of materials that are either rare in nature (such as aluminium), unknown naturally (molybdenum), or entirely novel (plastics).
A microclaw's size a mere six-millionths of a metre across means that each chip can have thousands rather than hundreds of connections with the outside world.In this section Left-wing butterflies Scaling the icy peaks Concrete proposals Sharp claws ReprintsMicroclaws are made by coating the silicon of the package with a thin film made from an alloy of molybdenum and chromium.
It contains chromium to resist corrosion, and molybdenum and tungsten for strength.The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation has devised a process using heat and high pressure to make synthetic rock out of radioactive waste and minerals including calcium, titanium and zirconium.
Furthermore, despite having sidelines in cobalt and molybdenum, the new firm's fortunes will depend chiefly on the price of copper and nickel two of most volatile metals of late.Some analysts mutter that Phelps Dodge embarked on the merger chiefly to save itself from being taken over.
Mongolia makes mining geologists salivate over its known riches and unexplored potential for copper, coal, gold, silver, uranium, molybdenum, and on and on.
SUPPLEMENTS are all the rage: evening primrose oil; St John's wort; fish oils; glucosamine; selenium; zinc; iron; molybdenum; probiotics.
It is a so-called companion metal, left over from molybdenum production, itself a by-product of copper mining.
THE image of the market-rigging commodity speculator of modern folklore lies somewhere between moustache-twirling pantomime villain and James Bond's evil nemesis ("When I press this button the price of molybdenum will treble, the world will be destroyed and I will be rich, rich, rich!").
