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The melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid. At the melting point the solid and liquid phase exist in equilibrium. The melting point of a substance depends on pressure and is usually specified at a standard pressure such as 1 atmosphere or 100 kPa.
Sodium fluoride (NaF) is an inorganic compound with the formula Na F.It is a colorless or white solid that is readily soluble in water. It is used in trace amounts in the fluoridation of drinking water to prevent tooth decay, and in toothpastes and topical pharmaceuticals for the same purpose.
The Gmelin rare earths handbook lists 1522 °C and 1550 °C as two melting points given in the literature, the most recent reference [Handbook on the chemistry and physics of rare earths, vol.12 (1989)] is given with 1529 °C. The World Book encyclopedia from 2002 lists 1529 °C. WEL: 1770 K: 1497 °C: 2727 °F CRC: 1529 °C: LNG: 1529 °C: 69 ...
Refractory metals have high melting points, with tungsten and rhenium the highest of all elements, and the other's melting points only exceeded by osmium and iridium, and the sublimation of carbon. These high melting points define most of their applications. All the metals are body-centered cubic except rhenium which is hexagonal close-packed.
Of all metals in pure form, tungsten has the highest melting point (3,422 °C, 6,192 °F), lowest vapor pressure (at temperatures above 1,650 °C, 3,000 °F), and the highest tensile strength. [26] Although carbon remains solid at higher temperatures than tungsten, carbon sublimes at atmospheric pressure instead of melting, so it has no melting ...
However, rhenium oxide Re 2 O 7 is volatile (sublimes at ~360 °C) and therefore is removed during the discharge. [55] Rhenium has a high melting point and a low vapor pressure similar to tantalum and tungsten. Therefore, rhenium filaments exhibit a higher stability if the filament is operated not in vacuum, but in oxygen-containing atmosphere ...
FLiNaK is the name of the ternary eutectic alkaline metal fluoride salt mixture LiF-NaF-KF (46.5-11.5-42 mol %). [1] It has a melting point of 462 °C [ 2 ] and a boiling point of 1570 °C. It is used as electrolyte for the electroplating of refractory metals and compounds like titanium , tantalum , hafnium , zirconium and their borides . [ 3 ]
NaK with 77% potassium is eutectic and has the lowest melting point of the NaK alloys at −12.6 °C. [ 78 ] Liquid sodium is used as a heat transfer fluid in sodium-cooled fast reactors [ 79 ] because it has the high thermal conductivity and low neutron absorption cross section required to achieve a high neutron flux in the reactor. [ 80 ]