Nb
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- noun
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- After three more decades of development, we have Nb-Ti cable for the 6.6-tesla magnets of the Superconducting Super Collider.
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Thoughts brought to you because of the incomparable NB's post on the topic.
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(nb - the literacy rate in New England at that time was like 97% and the population had an attention span somewhat beyond a few seconds)
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This isn't a lame Metallica "let's go back to our roots" album, or a cheap NB album either.
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Male bad, we always know where they are getting closer and closer, the U. So in the absence of Nb, Christian Louboutin sale, low alloy steel.
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Ironically, that was just when new techniques were being developed for producing more rugged and satisfactory Nb/Al/Al2O3/Nb Josephson tunnel junctions.
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Ironically, that was just when new techniques were being developed for producing more rugged and satisfactory Nb/Al/Al2O3/Nb Josephson tunnel junctions.
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Table 2 presents the experimental results for 1-nearest-neighbor (1NN), naive Bayes (NB), and C4.5, respectively.
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In addition, Grujicic et al. 38 proved that the addition of iron into the Nb-Cr system stabilizes the high-temperature C14 Laves phase at a lower temperature.
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Pu-239 is not an oxide, but a pure metal alloyed with Zr; it's about 10% Pu-239, from memory, and Zr-Nb alloy cladding.
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Niobium, represented by the chemical symbol Nb, is often used in superconducting magnets.
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A soft grey metal that people use in strong steel and magnets that work at very low temperatures
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A former name for the metal niobium used in older science books
A soft grey metal used in alloys, formerly called columbium
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nb is the chemical symbol for the metal niobium, a name that comes from the Greek myth figure Niobe. Scientists chose that name because niobium is very like the metal tantalum, so Nb is the short label used for niobium on the periodic table.