oxide

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They were named for their structural resemblance to perovskites, a broader class of oxide materials widely studied in materials science.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2026

USA Rare Earth invested in Carester, a French rare-earth processing firm, to access its oxide output for a new metal-making facility.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

From a manufacturing perspective, two of the materials used in the device, tungsten and hafnium oxide, are already widely used in semiconductor production.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

Take quicklime, otherwise known as calcium oxide, and just add water.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Fie continued to provide Segre with metal scraps and even acceded to Segre’s request to irradiate a quantity of uranium oxide mailed from Italy so that he could continue searching for nuclear reactions.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik