{"id":2793,"date":"2026-10-03T19:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T19:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2026-10-03T19:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T19:08:24","slug":"molybdenum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/molybdenum\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Molybdenum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Molybdenum is a silvery transition metal with high melting point and excellent strength at elevated temperatures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Molybdenum<\/strong> | It commonly shows +6 oxidation state in oxides and forms hard, wear resistant alloys and catalysts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Molybdenum<\/strong> | Molybdenum is mined from molybdenite and used in alloy steels, catalysts, lubricants and electrical contacts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Molybdenum<\/strong> | Stable isotopes include Mo 92 to Mo 100; molybdenum compounds vary in toxicity and industrial exposure controls are applied.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High melting transition metal essential for steel alloys and catalysts<\/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-2793","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\/2793","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=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5919,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/5919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}