Titlebook: Metallic Materials Specification Handbook; Robert B. Ross Book 1992Latest edition Robert B. Ross 1992 Aluminium.boron.chromium.gold.iron.m

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, Cs (cesium),Caesium salts used in the manufacture of electronic high vacuum valves result in the reduction of caesium from the chloride salt by molten barium metal. This is a by-product of the high vacuum process required by modern electronic equipment and is not a real source of the metal.

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, Ca,Calcium resembles aluminium and magnesium in many of its properties but is more difficult to cast as it oxidizes much more rapidly. It is also much softer and more ductile, being readily cut with a knife and bent by hand. Although it burns readily in air it is not subject to spontaneous combustion and can be safely handled.

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, Cu,Copper and its alloys have been in the service of mankind for longer than any other metal, and until the second half of this century it had the largest use of any metal after iron. Aluminium has now taken second place and copper is third in the table for usefulness.

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, Ge,Germanium is a metalloid, having some non-metallic characteristics, but not as marked as in silicon, or boron. It is a very brittle material, quite stable in air up to red heat.

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, Ha,Hafnium is a metal very similar to zirconium and is invariably found with zirconium. It is found in the USA, principally in Florida, and in Australia and Brazil. Some is found also in Africa and India.

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, In,The compounds of indium occur in small quantities widely scattered throughout the world. To date no deposits large enough to warrant extraction of the metal are known, but certain tin, lead and zinc ores contain appreciable quantities.