How to Use rhenium in a Sentence

rhenium

noun
  • But the rhenium that was bound to the organic carbon gets washed through rivers into the ocean, where it is incorporated into new seabed sediments.
    — Howard Lee, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026
  • The concentrations of rhenium in the rock are as low as one billionth of a gram per gram of rock, requiring exquisitely sensitive techniques to measure it.
    — Howard Lee, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026
  • The rhenium isotopes in the study show there was sufficient organic carbon weathering to fill that CO2 gap.
    — Howard Lee, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026
  • Valued for its exceptional properties, rhenium boasts a melting point of 3,186°C and retains strength under extreme heat.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
  • To measure how much organic carbon was weathered on land during the Toarcian, Stow and colleagues turned to isotopes of the element rhenium extracted from rocks deposited on the seabed at the time.
    — Howard Lee, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026
  • The researchers collaborated with experimental physicists in Italy to test NbRe, a niobium–rhenium alloy.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The intensity of organic carbon oxidation changes the ratio of the isotope rhenium 187 to rhenium 185.
    — Howard Lee, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026

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