Commercially Pure Zirconium vs. Grade 15 Babbitt Metal
Both commercially pure zirconium and grade 15 Babbitt Metal are otherwise unclassified metals. There are 10 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (17, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is commercially pure zirconium and the bottom bar is grade 15 Babbitt Metal.
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Material Properties
| Density, g/cm3 | 6.7 | |
| 10 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 98 | |
| 23 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 450 | |
| 840 |
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 250 | |
| 46 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.34 | |
| 0.4 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 36 | |
| 8.2 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 270 | |
| 140 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 8.1 | |
| 1.2 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 23 | |
| 9.0 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 5.5 | |
| 26 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |
| Antimony (Sb), % | 0 | |
| 14.5 to 17.5 |
| Arsenic (As), % | 0 | |
| 0.8 to 1.4 |
| Bismuth (Bi), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Cadmium (Cd), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.050 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.050 | |
| 0 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 0 to 0.2 | |
| 0 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.6 |
| Hafnium (Hf), % | 0 to 4.5 | |
| 0 |
| Hydrogen (H), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 0 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 to 0.2 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 0 | |
| 79 to 83.9 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0 to 0.025 | |
| 0 |
| Oxygen (O), % | 0 to 0.16 | |
| 0 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 0 | |
| 0.8 to 1.2 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |
| Zirconium (Zr), % | 94.7 to 100 | |
| 0 |