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Although molybdenum is fairly abundant and is found in a number of minerals, its commercial production is primarily from mineral molybdenite, MoS2.
The process involves
- Roasting the ore - to give molybdenum oxide.
- This is extracted from the ore using aqueous ammonia, whence it forms ammonium molybdate.
- Ammonium molybdate is then converted to ammonium dimolybdate which can be isolated as a solid.
- Heating this gives molybdenum trioxide, MoO3.
- Finally, the metal is produced by reduction using hydrogen.
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What type of element is molybdenum?
Molybdenum is a transition metal element. It is commonly used in various industrial applications and as an alloying agent in steel production.
What element has a 42 numbers for electrons?
Molybdenum is the element that has 42 electrons.
How many isotopes does the element molybdenum have?
Molybdenum has a total of 20 isotopes, but only seven of them are naturally occurring. The most stable isotope of molybdenum is Mo-98.
What is the mass number of molybdenum?
The atomic number of molybdenum (Mo) is 42. See the Web Links to the left of this answer for a periodic table with more information about this element!
How was the element technetium developed?
Technetium was the first element to be artificially produced. It was synthesized by Italian scientists Carlo Perrier and Emilio Segrè in 1937 by bombarding molybdenum with deuterons in a cyclotron. This synthetic element is widely used in medical imaging.
