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Rhenium is a chemical element; it has symbol Re and atomic number 75. It is a silvery-gray, heavy, third-row transition metal in group 7 of the periodic table. With an estimated average concentration of 1 part per billion (ppb), rhenium is one of the rarest elements in the Earth's crust. It has the third-highest melting point and second-highest boiling point of any element at 5869 K.JOURNAL, Zhang, Yiming, 2011-01-11, Corrected Values for Boiling Points and Enthalpies of Vaporization of Elements in Handbooks,weblink Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, 56, It resembles manganese and technetium chemically and is mainly obtained as a by-product of the extraction and refinement of molybdenum and copper ores. It shows in its compounds a wide variety of oxidation states ranging from −1 to +7.Rhenium was originally discovered by Masataka Ogawa in 1908, but he mistakenly assigned it as element 43 rather than element 75 and named it nipponium. It was rediscovered by Walter Noddack, Ida Tacke and Otto Berg in 1925,JOURNAL, 1925-06-01, Die Ekamangane,weblink Naturwissenschaften, de, 13, 26, 567–574, 10.1007/BF01558746, 1925NW.....13..567., 32974087, 1432-1904, who gave it its present name. It was named after the river Rhine in Europe, from which the earliest samples had been obtained and worked commercially.WEB, From Hydrogen to Darmstadtium & More, 144,weblink American Chemical Society, 2003, Nickel-based superalloys of rhenium are used in combustion chambers, turbine blades, and exhaust nozzles of jet engines. These alloys contain up to 6% rhenium, making jet engine construction the largest single use for the element. The second-most important use is as a catalyst: it is an excellent catalyst for hydrogenation and isomerization, and is used for example in catalytic reforming of naphtha for use in gasoline (rheniforming process). Because of the low availability relative to demand, it is expensive, with price reaching an all-time high in 2008/2009 of US$10,600 per kilogram (US$4,800 per pound). Due to increases in recycling and a drop in demand for rhenium in catalysts, the price had dropped to US$2,844 per kilogram (US$1,290 per pound) as of July 2018.WEB,weblink BASF Catalysts - Metal Prices, apps.catalysts.basf.com, 2018-04-11, 2021-04-12,weblink dead,

History

{{Redirect|Nipponium|element 113|nihonium}}In 1908, Japanese chemist Masataka Ogawa announced that he had discovered the 43rd element and named it nipponium (Np) after Japan (Nippon in Japanese). In fact, he had found element 75 (rhenium) instead of element 43: both elements are in the same group of the periodic table.JOURNAL, 10.1016/j.sab.2003.12.027, Discovery of a new element 'nipponiumʼ: re-evaluation of pioneering works of Masataka Ogawa and his son Eijiro Ogawa, 2004, Yoshihara, H. K., Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, 59, 1305–1310, 2004AcSpe..59.1305Y, 8, JOURNAL, Hisamatsu, Yoji, Egashira, Kazuhiro, Yoshiteru, Maeno, 2022, Ogawa's nipponium and its re-assignment to rhenium, Foundations of Chemistry, 24, 15–57, 10.1007/s10698-021-09410-x, free, Ogawa's work was often incorrectly cited, because some of his key results were published only in Japanese; it is likely that his insistence on searching for element 43 prevented him from considering that he might have found element 75 instead. Just before Ogawa's death in 1930, Kenjiro Kimura analysed Ogawa's sample by X-ray spectroscopy at the Imperial University of Tokyo, and said to a friend that "it was beautiful rhenium indeed". He did not reveal this publicly, because under the Japanese university culture before World War II it was frowned upon to point out the mistakes of one's seniors, but the evidence became known to some Japanese news media regardless. As time passed with no repetitions of the experiments or new work on nipponium, Ogawa's claim faded away. The symbol Np was later used for the element neptunium, and the name "nihonium", also named after Japan, along with symbol Nh, was later used for element 113. Element 113 was also discovered by a team of Japanese scientists and was named in respectful homage to Ogawa's work.JOURNAL, Öhrström, Lars, Reedijk, Jan, 28 November 2016, Names and symbols of the elements with atomic numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118 (IUPAC Recommendations 2016),weblink Pure Appl. Chem., 88, 12, 1225–1229, 10.1515/pac-2016-0501, 22 April 2017, 1887/47427, 99429711, free, Today, Ogawa's claim is widely accepted as having been the discovery of element 75 in hindsight.Rhenium ( meaning: "Rhine")BOOK, de, Forschen Suche und Sucht, Hans Georg, Tilgner, Books on Demand, 2000, 978-3-89811-272-7,weblink received its current name when it was rediscovered by Walter Noddack, Ida Noddack, and Otto Berg in Germany. In 1925 they reported that they had detected the element in platinum ore and in the mineral columbite. They also found rhenium in gadolinite and molybdenite.JOURNAL, Noddack, W., Tacke, I., Berg, O., Die Ekamangane, Naturwissenschaften, 1925, 13, 26, 567–574, 10.1007/BF01558746, 1925NW.....13..567., 32974087, In 1928 they were able to extract 1 g of the element by processing 660 kg of molybdenite.JOURNAL, Noddack, W., Noddack, I., Die Herstellung von einem Gram Rhenium, Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 1929, 183, 1, 353–375, 10.1002/zaac.19291830126, de, It was estimated in 1968 that 75% of the rhenium metal in the United States was used for research and the development of refractory metal alloys. It took several years from that point before the superalloys became widely used.BOOK, 4–5,weblink Trends in usage of rhenium: Report, Committee On Technical Aspects Of Critical And Strategic Material, National Research Council (U.S.), 1968, BOOK The original mischaracterization by Ogawa in 1908 and final work in 1925 makes rhenium perhaps the last stable element to be understood. Hafnium was discovered in 1923"Two Danes Discover New Element, Hafnium{{snd}}Detect It by Means of Spectrum Analysis of Ore Containing Zirconium", The New York Times, January 20, 1923, p. 4 and all other new elements discovered since then, such as francium, are radioactive.WEB, United States Geological Survey,weblink Minerals Information, Rhenium: Statistics and Information, 2011, 2011-05-25,

Characteristics

Rhenium is a silvery-white metal with one of the highest melting points of all elements, exceeded by only tungsten. (At standard pressure carbon sublimes rather than melts, though its sublimation point is comparable to the melting points of tungsten and rhenium.) It also has one of the highest boiling points of all elements, and the highest among stable elements. It is also one of the densest, exceeded only by platinum, iridium and osmium. Rhenium has a hexagonal close-packed crystal structure.Its usual commercial form is a powder, but this element can be consolidated by pressing and sintering in a vacuum or hydrogen atmosphere. This procedure yields a compact solid having a density above 90% of the density of the metal. When annealed this metal is very ductile and can be bent, coiled, or rolled.BOOK, C. R., Hammond, The Elements, Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 81st, CRC press, 978-0-8493-0485-9, 2004, registration,weblink Rhenium-molybdenum alloys are superconductive at 10 K; tungsten-rhenium alloys are also superconductiveJOURNAL, Superconductivity of Some Alloys of the Tungsten-rhenium-carbon System, Soviet Physics JETP, 27, 13, 1968, 1968JETP...27...13N, Neshpor, V. S., Novikov, V. I., Noskin, V. A., Shalyt, S. S., around 4–8 K, depending on the alloy. Rhenium metal superconducts at {{val|1.697|0.006|u=K}}.BOOK, Haynes, William M., 2011, CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 92nd, 12.60, CRC Press, 978-1439855119, CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170206104641weblink">weblink dead, 2017-02-06, The Properties of Superconducting Mo-Re Alloys, Daunt, J. G., Lerner, E., Defense Technical Information Center, In bulk form and at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, the element resists alkalis, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, and aqua regia. It will however, react with nitric acid upon heating.WEB,weblink Rhenium - A METAL WITHOUT WHICH THERE WOULdn't BE GASOLINE!, YouTube,

Isotopes

Rhenium has one stable isotope, rhenium-185, which nevertheless occurs in minority abundance, a situation found only in two other elements (indium and tellurium). Naturally occurring rhenium is only 37.4% 185Re, and 62.6% 187Re, which is unstable but has a very long half-life (~1010 years). A kilogram of natural rhenium emits 1.07 MBq of radiation due to the presence of this isotope. This lifetime can be greatly affected by the charge state of the rhenium atom.WEB, math.ucr.edu,weblink How to Change Nuclear Decay Rates, 1993, Bill, Johnson, 2009-02-21, JOURNAL, Bosch, F., Faestermann, T., Friese, J., Heine, F., Kienle, P., Wefers, E., Zeitelhack, K., Beckert, K., Franzke, B., Klepper, O., Kozhuharov, C., Menzel, G., Moshammer, R., Nolden, F., Reich, H., Schlitt, B., Steck, M., Stöhlker, T., Winkler, T., Takahashi, K., 3, Observation of bound-state β− decay of fully ionized 187Re: 187Re-187Os Cosmochronometry, 1996, Physical Review Letters, 77, 26, 5190–5193, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.5190, 1996PhRvL..77.5190B, 10062738, The beta decay of 187Re is used for rhenium–osmium dating of ores. The available energy for this beta decay (2.6 keV) is the second lowest known among all radionuclides, only behind the decay from 115In to excited 115Sn* (0.147 keV).JOURNAL, Belli, P., Bernabei, R., Danevich, F. A., Incicchitti, A., Tretyak, V. I., Experimental searches for rare alpha and beta decays, The European Physical Journal A, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 55, 8, 2019, 140, 1434-6001, 10.1140/epja/i2019-12823-2, 1908.11458, 2019EPJA...55..140B, The isotope rhenium-186m is notable as being one of the longest lived metastable isotopes with a half-life of around 200,000 years. There are 33 other unstable isotopes that have been recognized, ranging from 160Re to 194Re, the longest-lived of which is 183Re with a half-life of 70 days.{{NUBASE2016|ref}}

Compounds

Rhenium compounds are known for all the oxidation states between −3 and +7 except −2. The oxidation states +7, +4, and +3 are the most common.BOOK, Housecroft, Catherine E., Sharpe, Alan G., Inorganic Chemistry, 2018, Pearson Prentice-Hal, 978-1292-13414-7, 829, 5th, Rhenium is most available commercially as salts of perrhenate, including sodium and ammonium perrhenates. These are white, water-soluble compounds.Glemser, O. (1963) "Ammonium Perrhenate" in Handbook of Preparative Inorganic Chemistry, 2nd ed., G. Brauer (ed.), Academic Press, NY., Vol. 1, pp. 1476–85. Tetrathioperrhenate anion [ReS4]− is possible.BOOK, Goodman, JT, Rauchfuss, TB, Useful Reagents and Ligands, Inorganic Syntheses, Inorganic Syntheses, 2002, 33, 107–110, 10.1002/0471224502.ch2, 0471208256,

Halides and oxyhalides

The most common rhenium chlorides are ReCl6, ReCl5, ReCl4, and ReCl3.{{Greenwood&Earnshaw2nd}} The structures of these compounds often feature extensive Re-Re bonding, which is characteristic of this metal in oxidation states lower than VII. Salts of [Re2Cl8]2− feature a quadruple metal-metal bond. Although the highest rhenium chloride features Re(VI), fluorine gives the d0 Re(VII) derivative rhenium heptafluoride. Bromides and iodides of rhenium are also well known, including rhenium pentabromide and rhenium tetraiodide.Like tungsten and molybdenum, with which it shares chemical similarities, rhenium forms a variety of oxyhalides. The oxychlorides are most common, and include ReOCl4, ReOCl3.

Oxides and sulfides

(File:Perrhenic-acid-3D-balls.png|left|thumb|upright=0.5|Perrhenic acid (H4Re2O9) adopts an unconventional structure.)The most common oxide is the volatile yellow Re2O7. The red rhenium trioxide ReO3 adopts a perovskite-like structure. Other oxides include Re2O5, ReO2, and Re2O3. The sulfides are ReS2 and Re2S7. Perrhenate salts can be converted to tetrathioperrhenate by the action of ammonium hydrosulfide.BOOK, Goodman, J. T., Rauchfuss, T. B., Useful Reagents and Ligands, Inorganic Syntheses, 2002, 33, 107–110, 10.1002/0471224502.ch2, 9780471208259,

Other compounds

Rhenium diboride (ReB2) is a hard compound having a hardness similar to that of tungsten carbide, silicon carbide, titanium diboride or zirconium diboride.JOURNAL, Jiaqian, Qin, He, Duanwei, Wang, Jianghua, Fang, Leiming, Lei, Li, Li, Yongjun, Hu, Juan, Kou, Zili, Bi, Yan, Is Rhenium Diboride a Superhard Material?, Advanced Materials, 20, 2008, 4780–4783, 10.1002/adma.200801471, 24, 2008AdM....20.4780Q, 98327405,

Organorhenium compounds

Dirhenium decacarbonyl is the most common entry to organorhenium chemistry. Its reduction with sodium amalgam gives Na[Re(CO)5] with rhenium in the formal oxidation state −1.JOURNAL, 10.1002/cber.19901230103, Nucleophile Addition von Carbonylmetallaten an kationische Alkin-Komplexe [CpL2M(η2-RC≡CR)]+ (M = Ru, Fe): μ-η1:η1-Alkin-verbrückte Komplexe, 1990, Breimair, Josef, Chemische Berichte, 123, 7, Steimann, Manfred, Wagner, Barbara, Beck, Wolfgang, Dirhenium decacarbonyl can be oxidised with bromine to bromopentacarbonylrhenium(I):BOOK, Inorganic Syntheses, Steven P., Schmidt, Trogler, William C., Basolo, Fred, Pentacarbonylrhenium Halides, 28, 1990, 154–159, 10.1002/9780470132593.ch42, 978-0-470-13259-3, Reduction of this pentacarbonyl with zinc and acetic acid gives pentacarbonylhydridorhenium:BOOK, Michael A. Urbancic, John R. Shapley, Pentacarbonylhydridorhenium, Inorganic Syntheses, 28, 165–168, 1990, 10.1002/9780470132593.ch43, 978-0-470-13259-3, Methylrhenium trioxide ("MTO"), CH3ReO3 is a volatile, colourless solid has been used as a catalyst in some laboratory experiments. It can be prepared by many routes, a typical method is the reaction of Re2O7 and tetramethyltin: Analogous alkyl and aryl derivatives are known. MTO catalyses for the oxidations with hydrogen peroxide. Terminal alkynes yield the corresponding acid or ester, internal alkynes yield diketones, and alkenes give epoxides. MTO also catalyses the conversion of aldehydes and diazoalkanes into an alkene.Hudson, A. (2002) “Methyltrioxorhenium” in Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons: New York, {{ISBN|9780470842898}}, {{doi|10.1002/047084289X}}.

Nonahydridorhenate

(File:Nonahydridorhenate-3D-balls.png|right|thumb|upright=0.5|Structure of {{chem|ReH|9|2-}}.)A distinctive derivative of rhenium is nonahydridorhenate, originally thought to be the rhenide anion, Re−, but actually containing the {{chem|ReH|9|2-}} anion in which the oxidation state of rhenium is +7.

Occurrence

Rhenium is one of the rarest elements in Earth's crust with an average concentration of 1 ppb; other sources quote the number of 0.5 ppb making it the 77th most abundant element in Earth's crust.BOOK, Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements, Emsley, John, Oxford University Press, 2001, Oxford, England, UK, 978-0-19-850340-8, Rhenium, 358–360,weblinkweblink Rhenium is probably not found free in nature (its possible natural occurrence is uncertain), but occurs in amounts up to 0.2% in the mineral molybdenite (which is primarily molybdenum disulfide), the major commercial source, although single molybdenite samples with up to 1.88% have been found. Chile has the world's largest rhenium reserves, part of the copper ore deposits, and was the leading producer as of 2005.WEB,weblink Steve T., Anderson, United States Geological Survey, 2005 Minerals Yearbook: Chile, 2008-10-26, It was only recently (in 1994) that the first rhenium mineral was found and described, a rhenium sulfide mineral (ReS2) condensing from a fumarole on Kudriavy volcano, Iturup island, in the Kuril Islands.JOURNAL, Korzhinsky, M. A., Tkachenko, S. I., Shmulovich, K. I., Taran Y. A., Steinberg, G. S., 2004-05-05, Discovery of a pure rhenium mineral at Kudriavy volcano, Nature (journal), Nature, 369, 51–52, 10.1038/369051a0, 6475, 1994Natur.369...51K, 4344624, Kudriavy discharges up to 20–60 kg rhenium per year mostly in the form of rhenium disulfide.JOURNAL, Kremenetsky, A. A., Chaplygin, I. V., Concentration of rhenium and other rare metals in gases of the Kudryavy Volcano (Iturup Island, Kurile Islands), Doklady Earth Sciences, 430, 1, 114, 2010, 10.1134/S1028334X10010253, 2010DokES.430..114K, 140632604, JOURNAL, Tessalina, S., Yudovskaya, M., Chaplygin, I., Birck, J., Capmas, F., Sources of unique rhenium enrichment in fumaroles and sulphides at Kudryavy volcano, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72, 889, 2008, 10.1016/j.gca.2007.11.015, 2008GeCoA..72..889T, 3, Named rheniite, this rare mineral commands high prices among collectors.WEB,weblink Amethyst Galleries, The Mineral Rheniite, {{Clear}}

Production

Approximately 80% of rhenium is extracted from porphyry molybdenum deposits.BOOK, Chapter 7: By-Products of Porphyry Copper and Molybdenum Deposits, D. A., John, R. D., Taylor, Rare earth and critical elements in ore deposits, 2016, 18, 137–164, 10.5382/Rev.18.07,weblink Philip L. Verplanck and Murray W. Hitzman, Some ores contain 0.001% to 0.2% rhenium. Roasting the ore volatilizes rhenium oxides.JOURNAL, 10.1021/cr60291a002, Recent advances in the chemistry of rhenium, 1974, Rouschias, George, Chemical Reviews, 74, 531, 5, Rhenium(VII) oxide and perrhenic acid readily dissolve in water; they are leached from flue dusts and gasses and extracted by precipitating with potassium or ammonium chloride as the perrhenate salts, and purified by recrystallization. Total world production is between 40 and 50 tons/year; the main producers are in Chile, the United States, Peru, and Poland.WEB, Rhenium, Mineral Commodity Summaries, U.S. Geological Survey, January 2012,weblink Michael J., Magyar, 2013-09-04, Recycling of used Pt-Re catalyst and special alloys allow the recovery of another 10 tons per year. Prices for the metal rose rapidly in early 2008, from $1000–$2000 per kg in 2003–2006 to over $10,000 in February 2008.WEB, MinorMetal prices, minormetals.com,weblink 2008-02-17, 2008-05-15,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080515180506weblink">weblink dead, WEB,weblink Jan, Harvey, Analysis: Super hot metal rhenium may reach "platinum prices", 2008-07-10, 2008-10-26, Reuters India, 2009-01-11,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20090111183605weblink">weblink dead, The metal form is prepared by reducing ammonium perrhenate with hydrogen at high temperatures: There are technologies for the associated extraction of rhenium from productive solutions of underground leaching of uranium ores.JOURNAL, Rudenko, A.A., Troshkina, I.D., Danileyko, V.V., Barabanov, O.S., Vatsura, F.Y., Prospects for selective-and-advanced recovery of rhenium from pregnant solutions of in-situ leaching of uranium ores at Dobrovolnoye deposit,weblink Gornye Nauki I Tekhnologii = Mining Science and Technology (Russia), 2021, 6, 3, 158–169, 10.17073/2500-0632-2021-3-158-169, 241476783,

Applications

Rhenium is added to high-temperature superalloys that are used to make jet engine partsWEB, Rhenium (Re) {{!, AMERICAN ELEMENTS ® |url=https://www.americanelements.com/re.html |access-date=2024-05-14 |website=American Elements: The Materials Science Company |language=en}}, using 70% of the worldwide rhenium production.JOURNAL, Rhythms of rhenium, Russian Journal of Non-Ferrous Metals, 48, 6, 2007, 10.3103/S1067821207060089, 418–423, A. V., Naumov, 137550564, Another major application is in platinum–rhenium catalysts, which are primarily used in making lead-free, high-octane gasoline.WEB, 2009 Mineral Yearbook: Rhenium, April 2011,weblink Michael J., Magyar, United States Geological Survey,

Alloys

The nickel-based superalloys have improved creep strength with the addition of rhenium. The alloys normally contain 3% or 6% of rhenium.WEB, Nickel Based Superalloys, H. K. D. H., Bhadeshia,weblink University of Cambridge, 2008-10-17, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20060825053006weblink">weblink 2006-08-25, Second-generation alloys contain 3%; these alloys were used in the engines for the F-15 and F-16, whereas the newer single-crystal third-generation alloys contain 6% of rhenium; they are used in the F-22 and F-35 engines.BOOK, Aerospace Materials: An Oxford-Kobe Materials Text, B., Cantor, Grant, Patrick Assender Hazel, CRC Press, 2001, 978-0-7503-0742-0,weblink 82–83, Rhenium is also used in the superalloys, such as CMSX-4 (2nd gen) and CMSX-10 (3rd gen) that are used in industrial gas turbine engines like the GE 7FA. Rhenium can cause superalloys to become microstructurally unstable, forming undesirable topologically close packed (TCP) phases. In 4th- and 5th-generation superalloys, ruthenium is used to avoid this effect. Among others the new superalloys are EPM-102 (with 3% Ru) and TMS-162 (with 6% Ru),JOURNAL, 10.1007/s11041-006-0099-6, Effect of high-gradient directed crystallization on the structure and properties of rhenium-bearing single-crystal alloy, 2006, Bondarenko, Yu. A., Metal Science and Heat Treatment, 48, 360, Kablov, E. N., Surova, V. A., Echin, A. B., 7–8, 2006MSHT...48..360B, 136907279, as well as TMS-138NEWS, Fourth generation nickel base single crystal superalloy,weblink and TMS-174.JOURNAL, Koizumi, Yutaka, etal, Development of a Next-Generation Ni-base Single Crystal Superalloy,weblink Proceedings of the International Gas Turbine Congress, Tokyo November 2–7, 2003, NEWS, Joint Development of a Fourth Generation Single Crystal Superalloy, Walston, S., Cetel, A., MacKay, R., O'Hara, K., Duhl, D., Dreshfield, R.,weblink dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20061015113650weblink">weblink 2006-10-15, (File:CFM56 P1220759.jpg|thumb|left|CFM International CFM56 jet engine with blades made with 3% rhenium)For 2006, the consumption is given as 28% for General Electric, 28% Rolls-Royce plc and 12% Pratt & Whitney, all for superalloys, whereas the use for catalysts only accounts for 14% and the remaining applications use 18%. In 2006, 77% of rhenium consumption in the United States was in alloys. The rising demand for military jet engines and the constant supply made it necessary to develop superalloys with a lower rhenium content. For example, the newer CFM International CFM56 high-pressure turbine (HPT) blades will use Rene N515 with a rhenium content of 1.5% instead of Rene N5 with 3%.JOURNAL, Fink, Paul J., Miller, Joshua L., Konitzer, Douglas G., Rhenium reduction—alloy design using an economically strategic element, JOM, 62, 1, 55, 2010, 10.1007/s11837-010-0012-z, 2010JOM....62a..55F, 137007996, WEB, Douglas G., Konitzer,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110725021809weblink">weblink 2011-07-25, Design in an Era of Constrained Resources, 2010-10-12, September 2010, Rhenium improves the properties of tungsten. Tungsten-rhenium alloys are more ductile at low temperature, allowing them to be more easily machined. The high-temperature stability is also improved. The effect increases with the rhenium concentration, and therefore tungsten alloys are produced with up to 27% of Re, which is the solubility limit.BOOK, Tungsten: properties, chemistry, technology of the element, alloys, and chemical compounds, Erik, Lassner, Schubert, Wolf-Dieter, Springer, 1999, 978-0-306-45053-2,weblink 256, Tungsten-rhenium wire was originally created in efforts to develop a wire that was more ductile after recrystallization. This allows the wire to meet specific performance objectives, including superior vibration resistance, improved ductility, and higher resistivity.NEWS,weblink Tungsten-Rhenium - Union City Filament, Union City Filament, 2017-04-05, en-US, One application for the tungsten-rhenium alloys is X-ray sources. The high melting point of both elements, together with their high atomic mass, makes them stable against the prolonged electron impact.BOOK, Practical radiotherapy physics and equipment, Pam, Cherry, Duxbury, Angela, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 978-1-900151-06-1,weblink 55, Rhenium tungsten alloys are also applied as thermocouples to measure temperatures up to 2200 °C.JOURNAL, Tungsten-Rhenium Thermocouples for Use at High Temperatures, Review of Scientific Instruments, 39, 1233, 1968, 10.1063/1.1683642, R., Asamoto, Novak, P. E., 8, 1968RScI...39.1233A, The high temperature stability, low vapor pressure, good wear resistance and ability to withstand arc corrosion of rhenium are useful in self-cleaning electrical contacts. In particular, the discharge that occurs during electrical switching oxidizes the contacts. However, rhenium oxide Re2O7 is volatile (sublimes at ~360 Â°C) and therefore is removed during the discharge.Rhenium has a high melting point and a low vapor pressure similar to tantalum and tungsten. Therefore, rhenium filaments exhibit a higher stability if the filament is operated not in vacuum, but in oxygen-containing atmosphere.JOURNAL, 10.1021/j100873a513, 1966, Blackburn, Paul E., The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 70, 311–312, The Vapor Pressure of Rhenium, Those filaments are widely used in mass spectrometers, ion gaugesJOURNAL, Tungsten-Rhenium Filament Lifetime Variability in Low Pressure Oxygen Environments, Earle, G. D., Medikonduri, R., Rajagopal, N., Narayanan, V., Roddy, P. A., IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 33, 5, 1736–1737, 10.1109/TPS.2005.856413, 2005, 2005ITPS...33.1736E, 26162679, and photoflash lamps in photography.BOOK, The chemical element: a historical perspective, Andrew, Ede, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006, 978-0-313-33304-0,

Catalysts

Rhenium in the form of rhenium-platinum alloy is used as catalyst for catalytic reforming, which is a chemical process to convert petroleum refinery naphthas with low octane ratings into high-octane liquid products. Worldwide, 30% of catalysts used for this process contain rhenium.JOURNAL, Rhenium-containing catalysts in reactions of organic compounds, 1998, Russian Chemical Reviews, 67, 157–177, 10.1070/RC1998v067n02ABEH000390, Margarita A., Ryashentseva, 2, 1998RuCRv..67..157R, 250866233, The olefin metathesis is the other reaction for which rhenium is used as catalyst. Normally Re2O7 on alumina is used for this process.JOURNAL, Catalysis Today, 51, 2, 1999, 289–299, Olefin metathesis over supported rhenium oxide catalysts, Johannes C., Mol, 10.1016/S0920-5861(99)00051-6, Rhenium catalysts are very resistant to chemical poisoning from nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorus, and so are used in certain kinds of hydrogenation reactions.JOURNAL, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 38, 5, 1830–1836, 1999, Selective Rhenium Recovery from Spent Reforming Catalysts, 10.1021/ie9806242, T. N., Angelidis, Rosopoulou, D. Tzitzios V., JOURNAL, The Oxidation State of Rhenium and Its Role in Platinum-Rhenium,weblink Robert, Burch, Platinum Metals Review, 1978, 22, 2, 57–60, 10.1595/003214078X2225760,

Other uses

The isotopes 186Re and 188Re are radioactive and are used for treatment of liver cancer. They both have similar penetration depth in tissue (5 mm for 186Re and 11 mm for 188Re), but 186Re has the advantage of a longer half life (90 hours vs. 17 hours).JOURNAL, Jonathan R., Dilworth, Parrott, Suzanne J., The biomedical chemistry of technetium and rhenium, Chemical Society Reviews, 1998, 27, 43–55, 10.1039/a827043z, WEB, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, The Tungsten-188 and Rhenium-188 Generator Information, 2005,weblink 2008-02-03,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080109170105weblink">weblink 2008-01-09, 188Re is also being used experimentally in a novel treatment of pancreatic cancer where it is delivered by means of the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes.JOURNAL, Baker, Monya, Radioactive bacteria attack cancer,weblink Nature, 22 April 2013, 10.1038/nature.2013.12841, free, The 188Re isotope is also used for the rhenium-SCT (skin cancer therapy). The treatment uses the isotope's properties as a beta emitter for brachytherapy in the treatment of basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin.JOURNAL, Cipriani, Cesidio, Desantis, Maria, Dahlhoff, Gerhard, Brown, Shannon D., Wendler, Thomas, Olmeda, Mar, Pietsch, Gunilla, Eberlein, Bernadette, 2020-07-22, Personalized irradiation therapy for NMSC by rhenium-188 skin cancer therapy: a long-term retrospective study, Journal of Dermatological Treatment, 33, 2, en, 969–975, 10.1080/09546634.2020.1793890, 32648530, 0954-6634, free, Related by periodic trends, rhenium has a similar chemistry to that of technetium; work done to label rhenium onto target compounds can often be translated to technetium. This is useful for radiopharmacy, where it is difficult to work with technetium – especially the technetium-99m isotope used in medicine – due to its expense and short half-life.JOURNAL, 10.1039/QR9621600299, An outline of technetium chemistry, 1962, Colton, R., Peacock R. D., Quarterly Reviews, Chemical Society, 16, 299–315, 4,

Precautions

Very little is known about the toxicity of rhenium and its compounds because they are used in very small amounts. Soluble salts, such as the rhenium halides or perrhenates, could be hazardous due to elements other than rhenium or due to rhenium itself.BOOK, Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements, Emsley, J., Oxford University Press, 2003, Oxford, England, UK, 978-0-19-850340-8, Rhenium, 358–361,weblink Only a few compounds of rhenium have been tested for their acute toxicity; two examples are potassium perrhenate and rhenium trichloride, which were injected as a solution into rats. The perrhenate had an LD50 value of 2800 mg/kg after seven days (this is very low toxicity, similar to that of table salt) and the rhenium trichloride showed LD50 of 280 mg/kg.JOURNAL, Pharmacology and toxicology of potassium perrhenate and rhenium trichloride, 321–323, Thomas J., Haley, Cartwright, Frank D., 10.1002/jps.2600570218, Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 57, 2, 1968, 5641681,

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Further reading

• BOOK, A Tale of Seven Elements, Eric, Scerri, 2013, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195391312,

External links

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• Rhenium at The Periodic Table of Videos (University of Nottingham)

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