You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Niobium. What an evocative name! The element was christened after Niobe, ...

Top among them should be the element with the atomic number 41, a shiny, white metal, solid at room temperature and known now as niobium, with the atomic symbol Nb. For niobium’s story spans ...

Laurence Knight investigates the hi-tech roles to which these two chemical elements are put in gadgets and telecommunications. He also discusses the bloody history behind the mining of their ore ...