This article examines the potential uses of niobium, and its compounds, as catalysts in chemical processing. The word potentials deliberately chosen because in 1978 none of the world's twenty-five major catalysts (1) contained niobium. On the other hand, catalysts containing molybdenum and vanadium, neighbors of niobium in the periodictable, realized over […] of sales in that same year. At the same t i m e many of the patents for niobium catalysts cover applications i n which niobium improves the activity of, or substitutes for, molybdenum based compounds. With favorable cost differentials and improvements i n understanding, niobium may be able to replace molybdenum in some of its traditional uses… (AU)
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Catalytic applications of niobium compounds 1981
International Symposium Niobium'81
1981
Wight, Christopher J
England, W A
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