Crossword-Solution: HAFNIUM
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| Element .72 | 1 answer |
| Element name derived from the Latin for "Copenhagen" | 1 answer |
| metallic element found in zirconium ores | 1 answer |
| A GREY TETRAVALENT METALLIC ELEMENT THAT RESEMBLES ZIRCONIUM CHEMICALLY AND IS FOUND IN ZIRCONIUM MINERALS | 11 answers |
| metallic chemical element | 20 answers |
| chemical element | 34 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with HAFNIUM (4)
Naturally, your own scientific warfare specialists have detected the release of energy incident to the explosion of our own improved thorium-hafnium interaction bomb; this bomb was exploded over the North Polar ice cap, about two hundred miles south of the Pole, on about 35 degrees East Longitude, almost due north of your capital city of Moscow.
Otherwise, how would he have guessed that the stuff in the sampling chamber was Osmium 187? Ferguson and Metty _had_ been trying to make Mercury 203 by adding eight successive tritium nuclei to Hafnium 179, progressing through Tantalum 182, Tungsten 185, Rhenium 188, Osmium 191, Iridium 194, Platinum 197, and Gold 200, all of which were unstable.
Successive additions of the alpha particles to Hafnium 179 had produced, first, Tungsten 183, and then Osmium 187, both of which were stable.
Hafnium The last thing that young Moseley did before enlisting was to puzzle his wits over the missing seventy-second element.
Quotes with HAFNIUM (2)
And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. […] Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive “cry”). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals — my old and valued friends — Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.
Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.
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Appears in: Chronicle, Newsday.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2003–2014).