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Heavy metals are
generally defined as
metals with
relatively high densities,
atomic weights, or
atomic numbers. The
criteria used, and
whether metalloids...
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fifth alkali metal, is the most
reactive of all the
metals. All the
alkali metals react with water, with the
heavier alkali metals reacting more vigorously...
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insert two
electrodes made
of different metals into a lemon, potato, etc. and
generate small amounts of electricity. A
voltaic pile can be made from two...
- term is
voltaic arc, as used in the
phrase "
voltaic arc lamp".
Techniques for arc
suppression can be used to
reduce the
duration or
likelihood of arc formation...
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Cathodic protection uses one or more
sacrificial anodes made
of a
metal which is more
active than the
protected metal.
Alloys of metals commonly used...
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integrated circuits. It is also used to
purify metals such as copper. The
aforementioned electroplating of metals uses an
electroreduction process (i.e. negative...
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other metals,
cadmium is
resistant to
corrosion and as a
result it is used as a
protective layer when
deposited on
other metals. As a bulk
metal, cadmium...
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Electropositive elemental metals, such as lithium, sodium, magnesium, iron, zinc, and aluminium, are good
reducing agents.
These metals donate electrons relatively...
- be
transition metals like the rest
of the d-block
metals. Many
alloys contain zinc,
including br****.
Other metals long
known to form
binary alloys with...
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Semiconductors states Kurt
Lehovec may have been the
first to
explain the photo-
voltaic effect in the peer
reviewed journal Physical Review. 1954 – The
first practical...