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What are the uses of rhenium?

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10y ago
Updated: 11/10/2020

Rhenium uses are:
- in thermocouples for high temperatures: W/W-Rh 26 %
- catalyst
- expensive superalloys
- X-ray source
- filaments in mass spectrometry (the sample is placed here)

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