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About 8% by weight of cathode-ray tubes is strontium oxide, which has been the major use of strontium since 1970. [3] [4] Color televisions and other devices containing color cathode-ray tubes sold in the United States are required by law to use strontium in the faceplate to block X-ray emission (these X-ray emitting TVs are no longer in production).
Data on elements' abundance in Earth's crust is added for comparison. As of 2020, the most expensive non-synthetic element by both mass and volume is rhodium. It is followed by caesium, iridium and palladium by mass and iridium, gold and platinum by volume. Carbon in the form of diamond can be more expensive than rhodium. Per-kilogram prices of ...
Strontium peroxide is an inorganic compound with the formula Sr O 2 that exists in both anhydrous and octahydrate form, both of which are white solids. The anhydrous form adopts a structure similar to that of calcium carbide .
A piece of cuprate of bismuth and strontium: this piece is a cube with an edge of nearly 1 mm. Bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide (BSCCO, pronounced bisko), is a type of cuprate superconductor having the generalized chemical formula Bi 2 Sr 2 Ca n−1 Cu n O 2n+4+x, with n = 2 being the most commonly studied compound (though n = 1 and n = 3 have also received significant attention).
Therefore, the front panel is made from a different glass mixture with strontium and barium to absorb the X-rays. The average values for the glass mixture determined for a recycling study in 2005 is 8.5% strontium oxide and 10% barium oxide. [59] Because strontium is so similar to calcium, it is incorporated in the bone.
Strontium nitrate is an inorganic compound composed of the elements strontium, nitrogen and oxygen with the formula Sr(NO 3) 2. This colorless solid is used as a red colorant and oxidizer in pyrotechnics .
LSAT is the most common name for the inorganic compound lanthanum aluminate - strontium aluminium tantalate, which has the chemical formula (LaAlO 3) 0.3 (Sr 2 TaAlO 6) 0.7 or its less common alternative: (La 0.18 Sr 0.82)(Al 0.59 Ta 0.41)O 3. LSAT is a hard, optically transparent oxide of the elements lanthanum, aluminium, strontium and tantalum.
Lanthanum strontium manganite (LSM or LSMO) is an oxide ceramic material with the general formula La 1−x Sr x MnO 3, where x describes the doping level. It has a perovskite -based crystal structure, which has the general form ABO 3 .