Jan 20, 20154 minHafnium – hot right now because it can take the heatDemand for the minor metal hafnium has stepped up with growing use within the aerospace industry for heat-resistant alloys, while nuclear...
Jan 9, 20154 minWhat hope Africa?Letter to Metal Bulletin: I read with interest the article written by Fleur Ritzema and posted on Metal Bulletin yesterday (January 8,...
Dec 22, 20143 minHow Does a Wind Turbine Work?By Harry Sherwood It’s the evening of October 1987, and you look out of your window as you tuck into a meal to see the trees swaying in...
Dec 3, 20142 minWhat is a scintillator?A scintillator is a material which converts the energy from incoming radiation into a form where it is more detectable. Humans cannot see...
Nov 24, 20142 minAn introduction to SuperconductorsFirst discovered in 1911 when Dutch Physicist Heike Onnes submerged mercury in liquid helium which he had prepared. Astonishingly, the...
Nov 7, 20146 minHow Glasenberg did the Right Thing in ZambiaIt was possibly one of Glencore’s better deals – to buy the Mufulira and Nkana operations of ZCCM from the Zambian Government at...
Sep 29, 20144 minPratt & Whitney/ Molymet write largest deal in rhenium historyIn a market as opaque as rhenium, the announcement (Pratt & Whitney’s website, Sept 4th 2014) that they made a deal to buy $690 mln of...
Aug 8, 20142 minCadmium and its growing use in CdTe photovoltaicsDiscovered simultaneously in 1817 by Karl Hermann and Friedrich Stromeyer (a physician) in Germany, Cadmium was initially detected as an...
Jul 25, 20144 minThallium: The Glassy-eyed ElementSince the first human adventures with glass during the Roman Empire, this transparent solid has come a long way: not only because of the...