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Throughout the nomenclature, the expression ‘base metals’ means: iron and steel, copper, nickel, aluminium, lead, zinc, tin, tungsten (wolfram), molybdenum, tantalum, magnesium, cobalt, bismuth, cadmium, titanium, zirconium, antimony, manganese, beryllium, chromium, germanium, vanadium, gallium, hafnium, indium, niobium (columbium), rhenium and thallium.
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Discovered in 1925, rhenium is found in molybdenite and platinum ores from which it is obtained as a by-product. It is heavy and used in alloys in thermocouples, camera flash units and electronic filaments, and is also a useful catalyst.
