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Show KENNECOTT INVESTIGATING NEW METAL KontHHiilt Copper Corp., the nation's largest produced of domestic do-mestic copper, is heavily involved involv-ed in the new "wonder metal" titanium. But the firm also is busily at work on another metal which in its own .sphere may he just as wonderful. It is rhenium use for which,' according to researchers, lies between be-tween tungsten and platinum. ! This metal, which has a melting melt-ing point of about 3,160 degrees centigrade and a specific gravity of 21.04, lias been a subject of interest in-terest of Kcimecott researchers for more than two years. ! The firm has actually produced I potassium perrhenate the "salt" iof the metal on a laboratory ! scale. And it reports presence of the metal not only in the great Utah : Copper pit at Bingham, but in other of its Western mines, i Attention was riveted on the copper film's program by appearance appear-ance here before the Utah Chap-, Chap-, ler, American Society of Metals, by Dr. J. 13. Austin, head of the ' United States Steel Corp. research i laboratory. ! In his discussion of rhenium ! (and subsequent amplifications), ' Dr. Austin says that "so far, the 1 production of rhenium in the U. S. has been the pilot plant scale 'production of very small lots of potassium perrhenate and of the metal powder by Prof. A. D. Mal-aven Mal-aven of the department of chemistry of the University of Tennessee." 1 his material, says Dr. Austin, |
