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Calcium hexaboride

Index Calcium hexaboride

Calcium hexaboride (sometimes calcium boride) is a compound of calcium and boron with the chemical formula CaB6. [1]

30 relations: Abrasive, Alloy, Bohr magneton, Boride, Boron, Boron carbide, Calcium, Calcium carbonate, Calcium oxide, Carbothermic reaction, Deoxidization, Diborane, Electrical resistivity and conductivity, Ferromagnetism, Hardness, Hot cathode, Iron, Knoop hardness test, Kondo effect, Lanthanum, Melting point, Nanowire, Nickel, Oxygen-free copper, Steel, Superconductivity, Thermoelectric effect, Work function, Young's modulus, Zone melting.

Abrasive

An abrasive is a material, often a mineral, that is used to shape or finish a workpiece through rubbing which leads to part of the workpiece being worn away by friction.

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Alloy

An alloy is a combination of metals or of a metal and another element.

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Bohr magneton

In atomic physics, the Bohr magneton (symbol μB) is a physical constant and the natural unit for expressing the magnetic moment of an electron caused by either its orbital or spin angular momentum.

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Boride

A boride is a compound between boron and a less electronegative element, for example silicon boride (SiB3 and SiB6).

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Boron

Boron is a chemical element with symbol B and atomic number 5.

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Boron carbide

Boron carbide (chemical formula approximately B4C) is an extremely hard boron–carbon ceramic, and covalent material used in tank armor, bulletproof vests, engine sabotage powders, as well as numerous industrial applications.

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Calcium

Calcium is a chemical element with symbol Ca and atomic number 20.

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Calcium carbonate

Calcium carbonate is a chemical compound with the formula CaCO3.

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Calcium oxide

Calcium oxide (CaO), commonly known as quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound.

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Carbothermic reaction

Carbothermic reactions involve the reduction of substances, often metal oxides (O2^2-), using carbon as the reducing agent.

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Deoxidization

Deoxidization is a method used in metallurgy to remove the oxygen content during steel manufacturing.

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Diborane

Diborane is the chemical compound consisting of boron and hydrogen with the formula B2H6.

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Electrical resistivity and conductivity

Electrical resistivity (also known as resistivity, specific electrical resistance, or volume resistivity) is a fundamental property that quantifies how strongly a given material opposes the flow of electric current.

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Ferromagnetism

Ferromagnetism is the basic mechanism by which certain materials (such as iron) form permanent magnets, or are attracted to magnets.

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Hardness

Hardness is a measure of the resistance to localized plastic deformation induced by either mechanical indentation or abrasion.

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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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Iron

Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.

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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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Kondo effect

In physics, the Kondo effect describes the scattering of conduction electrons in a metal due to magnetic impurities, resulting in a characteristic change in electrical resistivity with temperature.

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Lanthanum

Lanthanum is a chemical element with symbol La and atomic number 57.

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Melting point

The melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid at atmospheric pressure.

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Nanowire

A nanowire is a nanostructure, with the diameter of the order of a nanometer (10−9 meters).

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Nickel

Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28.

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Oxygen-free copper

Oxygen-free copper (OFC) or oxygen-free high thermal conductivity (OFHC) copper is a group of wrought high conductivity copper alloys that have been electrolytically refined to reduce the level of oxygen to.001% or below.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.

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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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Thermoelectric effect

The thermoelectric effect is the direct conversion of temperature differences to electric voltage and vice versa via a thermocouple.

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Work function

In solid-state physics, the work setting (sometimes spelled workfunction) is the minimum thermodynamic work (i.e. energy) needed to remove an electron from a solid to a point in the vacuum immediately outside the solid surface.

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Young's modulus

Young's modulus, also known as the elastic modulus, is a measure of the stiffness of a solid material.

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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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References

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

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