Zirconium Is Used in The Electric Vacuum Industry

Zirconium is used in the electric vacuum industry

From a military perspective, as long as one thousandth of zirconium is added to steel, the hardness and strength will be amazingly improved. Zirconium-containing armor steel, cannon forging steel, stainless steel and heat-resistant steel are important materials for manufacturing weapons such as armored vehicles, tanks, cannons and ballistic plates.

In the electric vacuum industry, people widely use zirconium powder to coat the surfaces of anodes and other heated parts of electric vacuum components and instruments to absorb the residual gas in the vacuum tubes and make high-vacuum electron tubes and other electric vacuum instruments, thereby improving their quality and extend their service life.

Zirconium powder is characterized by low ignition point and fast burning speed. It can be used as the initiating explosive in detonators. This advanced detonator can explode even under water. Zirconium powder plus oxidant. This is like adding fuel to a fire. It burns with bright light and is a good material for making tracer bombs and illumination bombs.