{"id":2788,"date":"2026-09-16T01:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2026-09-16T01:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:32:22","slug":"iridium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/iridium\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Iridium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iridium is a rare, hard, corrosion resistant metal valued for durability in extreme environments and electrical contacts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Iridium<\/strong> | It resists oxidation and corrosion, has high melting point and maintains mechanical integrity at high temperatures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Iridium<\/strong> | Used in spark plugs, crucibles, electrical contacts, deep sea cables and as a hardening alloying element in platinum alloys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Iridium<\/strong> | Stable isotope Ir 193 and radioactive Ir 192 used industrially exist; iridium metal is handled with standard industrial precautions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extremely corrosion resistant platinum group metal used in spark plugs and high temperature applications<\/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-2788","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\/2788","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=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5912,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions\/5912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}