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Rare metals and rare earths
Rare earths of a lanthanum subset, or lanthanides, are applied in production of permanent magnets, in iron and steel industry and non-ferrous metallurgy, in nuclear, electronic, chemical and other industries. |
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Non-metals
Non-metals are chemical elements that form simple elements with no
metal-specific qualities. Non-metals typically include 22 elements: gases - hydrogen,
nitrogen,
oxygen, fluor, chlorine and inert gases; liquids - bromine; solids - boron, carbon,
silicon, phosphorus,
arsenic, sulphur,
selenium, tellurium, iodine, astatine. |
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Moderate decline in nickel, tin and copper prices |
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Prices of nickel, tin and copper declined moderately on the non-ferrous metal market here today on lack of industrial demand coupled with lower advices from London Metal Exchange (LME).
However, zinc and lead moved up good industrial support.
In LME, nickel touched a fresh 7-month low of $31,000/ton.
At New York, the most-active September copper contract fell 6.40 cents to settle at $3.5555 per pound on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
In local market, nickel dropped by Rs 35 per kilo to Rs 1490 from Rs 1525 previously and tin by 5 per kilo to Rs 745.
Elsewhere, copper cable scrap, copper scrap heavy, copper armiture and copper wire bar all also moved down by a rupee per kilo each to Rs 359, Rs 353, Rs 344 and Rs 387 respectively.
However, zinc and lead both moved up by a rupee per kilo to Rs 190 and Rs 121 respectively. back to the News |
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