Molybdenum, like tungsten, is a refractory rare metal. After the discovery of molybdenum by Swedish scientist C.W. Scheel in 1778, it took more than a decade for Henri Moissan to make molybdenum from an electric furnace, which made the metal available to humans for the first time with many excellent physical, chemical and mechanical properties.

At present, molybdenum and its alloys have a broad application and good prospect in metallurgy, agriculture, electrical, chemical, environmental protection and aerospace, and other important departments, which have become one of the national economies an important raw material and irreplaceable strategic material. The consumption form of molybdenum is mainly industrial molybdenum trioxide, accounting for 70%, molybdenum iron about 20%, metal molybdenum, and molybdenum chemical products about 5%. It can be seen that the development of iron and steel industry plays a decisive role in the consumption of molybdenum, however, the application of molybdenum in high technology and other fields will continue to expand and develop with the development of science and technology.

Molybdenum is characterized by high purity, high-temperature resistance, and low steam pressure and so on so that it is often used to make heat body and structural materials for the high-temperature furnace. In the production of tungsten molybdenum and hard alloy, the reduction furnace and sintering furnace are mostly made by heating molybdenum wire. Molybdenum rod is also used as the heating body in the continuous sintering of some iron products, which is hung by molybdenum hook on both sides of the furnace. Molybdenum heating elements are widely used in high-temperature resistance furnace and sapphire growth furnace due to their ability to withstand high temperature and corrosion. This kind of furnace is usually reductive atmosphere or non-oxidizing atmosphere. Molybdenum has good ablation resistance in molten quartz and is used as an electrode for electric melting in the glass industry. Only 7.8 grams molybdenum electrode lost for each ton of glass, and the service life of which can be more than one year. In addition to being an electrode, molybdenum is also used as a high-temperature structural material for glass melting, such as guide channel, pipe, the crucible, flow port and mixing rod for rare earth smelting.

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