# Rhenium ## 🧊 Rhenium · 3D (three.js) <iframe src="https://wikitube-elements.netlify.app/?el=Re&embed=1" width="100%" height="620" frameborder="0" style="border:0;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden" allowfullscreen loading="lazy" title="The Elements 3D microsim - Rhenium"></iframe> *Rhenium in the live three.js Elements explorer — drag to orbit the atom, click any tile to compare, slide the temperature.* · [▶ open full](https://wikitube-elements.netlify.app/?el=Re) <!-- ELEMENTS_MICROSIM:END --> !Rhenium plate.svg *Plate 75 of 118 - animated Bohr shells, stylized per Madelung filling; engraving style per house Arcanity kit.* ## Microsim To Do *Claimable rows, house pattern. Real Wikipedia articles only.* - Superalloy - rhenium in jet engine turbine blades - Creep (deformation) - high-temperature material fatigue - [[Molybdenum|Molybdenum]] - rhenium as by-product of molybdenite roasting - Petrochemical - rhenium catalysts for hydrogenation and reforming ## Links (Wikipedia order) <!-- injected from _registry/childlinks/Rhenium.json (2026-07-30T02:09:12Z) --> `Acetic_acid` · [[Actinium]] · `Aldehyde` · `Alkali_metal` · `Alkaline_earth_metal` · `Alkene` · `Alkyne` · [[Alloy]] · [[Aluminium]] · `Amalgam_(chemistry)` · [[Americium]] · `Ammonium_chloride` · `Ammonium_hydrosulfide` · `Anisotropy` · [[Antimony]] · `Aqua_regia` · [[Argon]] · [[Arsenic]] · [[Astatine]] · `Atomic_number` · `Atomic_radius` · [[Barium]] · `Basal-cell_carcinoma` · `Becquerel` · [[Berkelium]] · [[Beryllium]] · [[Beta_decay]] · [[Bismuth]] · `Block_(periodic_table)` · [[Bohrium]] · [[Boiling_point]] · [[Boron]] · `Boron_group` · `Brachytherapy` · `Brinell_hardness_test` · [[Bromine]] · 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Infobox grounded in [Wikipedia: List of chemical elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements), fetched 2026-07-08. Full article: [Wikipedia: Rhenium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhenium). <!-- ELEMENTS_MICROSIM:BEGIN (auto-managed block - edits inside will be overwritten) --> ## Key facts (infobox) | | | |---|---| | Symbol - Z | Re - 75 | | Group - Period - Block | 7 - 6 - d-block | | Atomic weight (Da) | 186.21 | | Density (g/cm3) | 21.02 | | Melting - Boiling (K) | 3459 - 5869 | | Electronegativity (Pauling) | 1.9 | | Crustal abundance (mg/kg) | 7e-4 | | Origin | primordial | | Phase (STP) | solid | | Name origin | Latin Rhenus, 'the Rhine' | *Bracketed weights are the mass number of the most stable isotope; values in parentheses are predictions (per the source table).* ## Story Rhenium was discovered in 1925 by German chemists Ida Tacke, Walter Noddack, and Otto Berg, who identified it spectroscopically in platinum ore [model-prior - verify]. It is named after the Rhenus (Rhine) river and was the last naturally occurring element to be discovered, making it a landmark achievement in elemental chemistry. For decades, rhenium was confused with elements like technetium—misidentifications that fed dubious claims of element synthesis. Rhenium sits directly below manganese in the periodic table, and its true discovery resolved a long-standing mystery: what element actually completed the 5d and 6d rows above manganese's position. Rhenium is a dense, silvery transition metal with one of the highest melting points (3459 K) and exceptional resistance to thermal shock and corrosion [model-prior - verify]. It is used in high-temperature superalloys for jet engines and turbine components, where it increases creep resistance and extends the service life of blades operating near their melting limits. Rhenium also appears in catalysts for petrochemical processing, in precision electrical contacts, and in some specialized thermoelectric materials [model-prior - verify]. Because of its rarity and high cost, rhenium production is closely tied to molybdenum mining—rhenium is recovered as a by-product of roasting molybdenite ore [model-prior - verify]. Rhenium's late discovery underscores how the periodic table's architecture remained incompletely understood until the mid-20th century, and how the search for missing elements drove both theoretical insight and practical synthesis chemistry—themes central to the canon's narrative of elemental completion. ## Corpus connections - R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N. - the Chemistry hub - Centers of Excellence Portal - [[Technetium|Technetium - the element made before found]] - the canon's patron - and Technitium, the School - Space Mining In Minnesota - refractory metals and high-temperature materials - History of Mining in Minnesota - the last natural element and discovery narrative ## Vocational-Technical Semiotics The element speaks the canon's shared signs: the periodic table cell (Re, group 7, period 6), isotope notation, and hazard pictograms ghs where handling demands it. ## Sources Infobox: [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements) (fetched 2026-07-08); etymology per the same table's notes. Story sources to be added at enrichment. ## Navigation - Canon: Elements Canon index - neighbors by Z: [[Tungsten|Tungsten (74)]] - [[Osmium|Osmium (76)]] - R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N. - Centers of Excellence ## Wikipedia : Wikitube **Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhenium) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/Rhenium) ## Previous hub tags Tree parents: [[Helium]] · [[Hydrogen]] · [[Oxygen]]. Legacy hubs: none. --- *Sources: 1 legacy note. Minted wave 1, 2026-07-30 (v1.6 order).*