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What national defense application is yttrium used for?
by ttul 9y ago
What national defense application is yttrium used for?
- evgen 9y agoYttrium barium copper oxide is a class of materials that exhibit superconductivity at (relative) high temperatures. This has a lot of applications and some of them are defense-related.
- AllegedAlec 9y agoBesides the applications in superconductors, it's also used in allows to strengthen, and is used in the creation of certain ceramics and glasses.
- topspin 9y agoYttrium is used to make high performance filters and oscillators. YIG filters and oscillators are wide band high Q microwave devices used in high performance instruments, radar and frequency agile communication systems. An example would be the AN/ALQ-161A B1-B countermeasure system.