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• n  a rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys; is obtained as a by-product in refining molybdenum

• The recent tendency for such names has been after placeshafnium (1922) for Hafnia (Copenhagen), masurium (1924) for the Masurian Lakes, rhenium (1924) for the Rhine, illinium .

• Re
• atomic number 75

News & Articles

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• Mission Mining Company Holds Possibly the World’s Largest Known Rhenium Deposit at its California El Dorado Mine
  Mission Mining Company - Mission Mining Company is pleased to report that its potential in-ground Rhenium resources likely make the El Dorado Mine one of only three known significant deposits of Rhenium in existence.
  Aug. 26, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance