Uses of Niobium and Cadmium

Niobium

Cadmium

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1.1 Uses & Benefits

Niobium alloys are used in jet engines and rockets and spacecraft, beams and girders for buildings and oil and gas pipelines.

It is used superconducting magnets in particles accelerators, NMR and MRI equipment.

It has very limited uses as it is a toxic metal and it can cause birth defects, cancer, etc.
Almost 80% of Cadmium metal is used in Nickel cadmium Batteries and now it is getting replaced with nickel hydride.

1.1.1 Industrial Uses

Aerospace Industry, Ammunition Industry, Electrical Industry, Electronic Industry

Aerospace Industry, Ammunition Industry, Chemical Industry, Electrical Industry, Electronic Industry

1.1.2 Medical Uses

1.1.3 Other Uses

Alloys

1.2 Biological Properties

1.2.1 Toxicity

Low Toxic

Toxic

1.2.2 Present in Human Body

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1.2.3 In Blood

0.01 Blood/mg dm-30.01 Blood/mg dm-3

0 1970

1.2.4 In Bone

0.07 p.p.m.1.80 p.p.m.

0 170000

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