Periodic Table · element
Rhenium
Re · Z 75
- atomic number
- 75
- atomic mass
- 186.21
- notation
- Re
- group
- 7: Manganese
- period
- 6
- state0c
- Solid
- state20c
- Solid
- occurrence
- Primordial
- density
- 21.02
- melting pt
- 3186
- boiling pt
- 5596
- discovered
- 1908
- abundance
- 0.0007
- ore grade
- 0.5
- ore minerals
- in molybdenite, at hundreds of ppm
- mined as
- By-product
extraction
Scrubbed from the flue gas of molybdenite roasters as perrhenic acid and precipitated as ammonium perrhenate — the source of nearly all rhenium, for jet-engine superalloys.
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