{"id":2783,"date":"2026-05-23T11:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:01:29","slug":"hafnium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/hafnium\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Hafnium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hafnium is a dense transition metal valued for neutron absorption, corrosion resistance and high melting point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Hafnium<\/strong> | It forms stable oxides, has high melting point and low neutron cross section when alloyed appropriately for nuclear applications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Hafnium<\/strong> | Used in control rods, superalloys, high temperature ceramics and as a high k dielectric in microelectronics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Hafnium<\/strong> | Stable isotopes include Hf 176 to Hf 180; hafnium metal is handled with standard industrial precautions and fine powders require controls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transition metal used in nuclear control rods, high temperature alloys and microelectronics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5858,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions\/5858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}