Príklady iridium

• Each contact is made of platinum/iridium alloy and is 1.5 mm in length and 1.27 mm in diameter.

• Radium has been replaced as a radioactive source in radiotherapy machines by safer materials such as cobalt and iridium.

• They do not have access to the iridium sources needed for this equipment to work.

• Iridium is gearing up for future mobile-based international communications.

• Iridium is added mostly in platinum jewellery, and certainly in white gold jewellery, to give added strength to the claw mounting.

• Iridium already has 60 of its 66 satellites up and on station.

• Iridium-192 is also a strong gamma ray emitter.

• Iridium-192 is commonly used as a gamma ray source in industrial radiography to locate flaws in metal components.

• Iridium is used in particle physics for the production of antiprotons, a form of antimatter.

• Additional graphite components provided impact protection, while iridium cladding of the fuel cells provided post-impact containment.

• The rhodium and iridium anions tend to be slightly unstable if the ligand is triphenylphosphine however, and quickly undergo reduction.

• Other precious metals include the platinum group metals: ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum, of which platinum is the most widely traded.

• Iridium radioisotopes are used in some radioisotope thermoelectric generators.

• The platinum group consists of platinum, iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, and ruthenium.

• The noble metals are most commonly considered to be ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, osmium, iridium, platinum, and gold.