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Yttrium borides

Index Yttrium borides

Yttrium boride refers to a crystalline material composed of different proportions of yttrium and boron, such as YB2, YB4, YB6, YB12, YB25, YB50 and YB66. [1]

20 relations: Aluminium diboride, Calcium hexaboride, Crystal structure of boron-rich metal borides, Cubic crystal system, Cuboctahedron, Debye model, Diffraction grating, Hot cathode, Icosahedron, Knoop hardness test, Lanthanum hexaboride, Magnesium diboride, Orthorhombic crystal system, Pearson symbol, Space group, Superconductivity, Synchrotron, Tetragonal crystal system, Yttrium(III) oxide, Zone melting.

Aluminium diboride

Aluminium diboride (AlB2) is a chemical compound made from the metal aluminium and the metalloid boron.

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Calcium hexaboride

Calcium hexaboride (sometimes calcium boride) is a compound of calcium and boron with the chemical formula CaB6.

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Crystal structure of boron-rich metal borides

Metals, and specifically rare-earth elements (RE), form numerous chemical complexes with boron.

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Cubic crystal system

In crystallography, the cubic (or isometric) crystal system is a crystal system where the unit cell is in the shape of a cube.

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Cuboctahedron

In geometry, a cuboctahedron is a polyhedron with 8 triangular faces and 6 square faces.

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Debye model

In thermodynamics and solid state physics, the Debye model is a method developed by Peter Debye in 1912 for estimating the phonon contribution to the specific heat (heat capacity) in a solid.

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Diffraction grating

In optics, a diffraction grating is an optical component with a periodic structure that splits and diffracts light into several beams travelling in different directions.

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Hot cathode

In vacuum tubes and gas-filled tubes, a hot cathode or thermionic cathode is a cathode electrode which is heated to make it emit electrons due to thermionic emission.

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Icosahedron

In geometry, an icosahedron is a polyhedron with 20 faces.

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Knoop hardness test

The Knoop hardness test is a microhardness test – a test for mechanical hardness used particularly for very brittle materials or thin sheets, where only a small indentation may be made for testing purposes.

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Lanthanum hexaboride

Lanthanum hexaboride (LaB6, also called lanthanum boride and LaB) is an inorganic chemical, a boride of lanthanum.

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Magnesium diboride

Magnesium diboride (MgB2) is a simple ionic binary compound that has proven to be an inexpensive and useful superconducting material.

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Orthorhombic crystal system

In crystallography, the orthorhombic crystal system is one of the 7 crystal systems.

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Pearson symbol

The Pearson symbol, or Pearson notation, is used in crystallography as a means of describing a crystal structure, and was originated by W.B. Pearson.

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Space group

In mathematics, physics and chemistry, a space group is the symmetry group of a configuration in space, usually in three dimensions.

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Superconductivity

Superconductivity is a phenomenon of exactly zero electrical resistance and expulsion of magnetic flux fields occurring in certain materials, called superconductors, when cooled below a characteristic critical temperature.

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Synchrotron

A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop path.

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Tetragonal crystal system

In crystallography, the tetragonal crystal system is one of the 7 crystal systems.

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Yttrium(III) oxide

Yttrium oxide, also known as yttria, is Y2O3.

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Zone melting

Zone melting (or zone refining or floating zone process or travelling melting zone) is a group of similar methods of purifying crystals, in which a narrow region of a crystal is melted, and this molten zone is moved along the crystal.

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YB12, YB2, YB25, YB6, YB66, Yttrium boride, Yttrium dodecaboride, Yttrium hexaboride.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yttrium_borides

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