Facts About Rhenium and Hafnium
Interesting Facts
- Chemical properties of Rhenium are similar to Manganese.
- Rhenium metal is created while refining Molybdenum.
- Hafnium metal is highly reactive, hence not found free in nature.
- Hafnium metal as predicated after Mendeleev finished his periodic table.
Sources
Found in Minerals, Mining, Ores of Minerals
By-product Zirconium Refining
Who Discovered
Masataka Ogawa
Dirk Coster and George de Hevesy
Discovery
In 1908
In 1922
Abundance In Earth's Crust