Uses of Ytterbium and Niobium

Ytterbium

Niobium

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1.1 Uses & Benefits

Ytterbium metal is used in memory devices and tuneable laser.
It is also used as industrial catalyst as the other catalysts are too toxic and polluting.

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.

1.1.1 Industrial Uses

Automobile Industry, Chemical Industry

Aerospace Industry, Ammunition Industry, Electrical Industry, Electronic Industry

1.1.2 Medical Uses

1.1.3 Other Uses

Alloys

1.2 Biological Properties

1.2.1 Toxicity

Highly Toxic

Low Toxic

1.2.2 Present in Human Body

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1.2.3 In Blood

NA0.01 Blood/mg dm-3

0 1970

1.2.4 In Bone

NA0.07 p.p.m.

0 170000

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