Research Results For 'Hafnium'

HAFNIUM

Hafnium is a silvery metal element with the symbol Hf occurring in zircon and used in nuclear reactors in the control rods and also used for light-bulb filaments. It was named in 1923 by the Dutch physicist Dirk Coster and Hungarian chemist Georg von Hevesy after the city of Copenhagen, where the element was discovered (Hafnia is Latin for Copenhagen).
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