Talk:Hafnium carbide

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Rod57 in topic What electrical and thermal conductivity

Refractory? edit

With such a high melting point (the highest of any binary compound according to hafnium), why is it important to avoid heat (twice!) and open flames? All around this stuff sounds pretty inert.

Could be subtle vandalism.
The thought crossed my mind, but it just looks really careless. So do we have a connoisseur in the house? ;v) Or was hafnium carbide near a heat source on the USS Maine? Potatoswatter 04:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)Reply
Refractory means that the melting point under vacuum is very high. HfC starts oxidizing (in the presence of an oxidizer of course) at 430C.Apirkle (talk) 20:17, 12 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

Nuclear control rods? edit

Removed reference to use of HfC in nuclear control rods. I can't find any reference to that application aside from this Wikipedia article.Apirkle (talk) 20:16, 12 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

What electrical and thermal conductivity edit

What electrical and thermal conductivity for HfC of particular compositions ? Band gap ? Temp-co ? - Rod57 (talk) 13:36, 25 October 2021 (UTC)Reply