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A
1 cm
3
cube, crystalline fragments, and a single crystal of
tantalum
, created by the
floating zone process
. Tantalum is a rare, hard, blue-gray,
lustrous
transition metal
that is highly resistant to
corrosion
. Its main use today is in
tantalum capacitors
in
electronic
equipment.
Photo:
Alchemist-hp
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