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Commercial rhenium is extracted from molybdenum roaster-flue dusts obtained from copper sulfide ores.

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Rhenium is combined with platinum to form catalysts that are used primarily for making lead-free, high-octane gasoline.

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The process was so complicated and the cost so high that production was discontinued until early 1950, when tungsten-rhenium and molybdenum-rhenium alloys were prepared.

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Little is known about the toxicity of rhenium, but as a precautionary measure, it should be handled with care.

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Recycling of used platinum-rhenium catalyst and special alloys allow the recovery of another ten tons/year.

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The melting point of rhenium is among the highest of all elements, exceeded only by the melting points of tungsten and carbon.

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The usual commercial form of rhenium is a powder, but it can be consolidated by pressing and resistance-sintering in a vacuum or hydrogen atmosphere.

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Rhenium (chemical symbol Re, atomic number 75) is a silvery-white, lustrous, rare metal.

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In 1994, Nature published a letter describing a rhenium sulfide mineral found condensing from a fumarole on Russia's Kudriavy volcano.

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Rhenium is also one of the densest, exceeded only by the densities of platinum, iridium, and osmium.

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Naturally occurring rhenium is a mix of 185Re, which is stable, and 187Re, which is radioactive but has a very long half-life.

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The name rhenium is derived from the Latin word Rhenus, meaning "Rhine."

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Rhenium is widely spread in the Earth's crust, at approximately 0.001 parts per million (ppm), but it is not found free in nature.

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Rhenium-molybdenum alloys are superconductive at ten Kelvin (K), and tungsten-rhenium alloys are superconductive around four to eight K, depending on the alloy.

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The oxidation states of rhenium include -3,-1,+1,+2,+3,+4,+5,+6 and +7.

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