{"id":19500,"date":"2016-12-28T12:56:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T12:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=19500"},"modified":"2016-12-28T12:56:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T12:56:38","slug":"worlds-heat-resistant-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/worlds-heat-resistant-material\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s most heat resistant material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Name the material which is found to be having highest ever recorded melting point for a material by the Researchers from Imperial College London, U.K.<\/strong><br \/>\n(a)Hafnium carbide<br \/>\n(b)Silicon carbide<br \/>\n(c)Calcium carbide<br \/>\n(d)Tantalum carbide (TaC)<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<br \/>\nRelated facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Recently Researchers from Imperial College London in the UK discovered that the melting point of hafnium carbide is the highest ever recorded for a material.<\/li>\n<li>It can withstand temperatures of nearly 4,000 degrees Celsius.<\/li>\n<li>Tantalum carbide (TaC) and hafnium carbide (HfC) are refractory ceramics, meaning they are extraordinarily resistant to heat.<\/li>\n<li>There has not been the technology available to test the melting point of TaC and HfC in the lab to determine how truly extreme an environment they could function in.<\/li>\n<li>The researchers developed a new extreme heating technique using lasers to test the heat tolerance of TaC and HfC.<\/li>\n<li>The compound TaC melted at 3,768 degrees Celsius, and HfC melted at 3,958 degrees Celsius.<\/li>\n<li>The recent finding may pave the way for the next generation of hypersonic vehicles, meaning spacecraft could become faster than ever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/home\/science\/worlds-most-heat-resistant-material-found\/articleshow\/56167238.cms\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/home\/science\/worlds-most-heat-resistant-material-found\/articleshow\/56167238.cms<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/The-sun-is-one-of-the-few-things-that-could-melt-this-newly-discovered-super-material\/articleshow\/48297938.cms\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/The-sun-is-one-of-the-few-things-that-could-melt-this-newly-discovered-super-material\/articleshow\/48297938.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Name the material which is found to be having highest ever recorded melting point for a material by the Researchers from Imperial College London, U.K. (a)Hafnium carbide (b)Silicon carbide (c)Calcium carbide (d)Tantalum carbide (TaC) Ans: (a) Related facts: Recently Researchers from Imperial College London in the UK discovered that the melting point of hafnium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[3119],"class_list":["post-19500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-science-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}