Molybdenum is a silvery-white, refractory and very hard transition metal that is softer and more ductile than tungsten. The Swedish chemist-Carl Wilhelm Scheele, first discovered it in 1778. Before then molybdenite was often confused with graphite and lead ore. Today molybdenum is primarily used in catalysts and lubricants, as an alloying agent in cast iron, steel and in certain superalloys to enhance their hardenability, strength, toughness and resistance to corrosion and wear.

Various molybdenum alloys have found application in electrodes for foreheaths and electrically heated glass furnaces. Molybdenum alloys are widely used in the nuclear energy industry and in the construction of both aircraft parts and ballistic missile components. It is especially valuable to the petrol-chemical industry, where it is used in oil pipelines and as catalyst in petroleum refining (for removing organic sulfurs). Molybdenum has also been used as a filament material in an assortment of electronic and electrical applications.

To achieve desired metallurgical properties is frequently used in combination with chromium, niobium (columbium), nickel, manganese or tungsten. The versatility of molybdenum and molybdenum alloys has ensured it a significant role in an industrial landscape that more than ever requires alloy materials that are serviceable at expanded temperature ranges, under high stress and in resistance corrosive environments.

More importantly, few if any of molybdenum's common applications have an acceptable substitute.

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Molybdenum is a silvery-white, refractory and very hard transition metal that is softer and more ductile than tungsten. The Swedish chemist—Carl Wilhelm Scheele, first discovered it in 1778. Though Molybdenum does not occur in the native environment, it can be obtained from molybdenite, wulfenite and powellite. Molybdenum can be also recovered as a by-product of copper and tungsten mining operations. Molybdenum in its pure form is the end product of the powder left over from the hydrogen reduction of ammonium molybdate or purified molybdic trioxide.
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