(n.) A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England.
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Columbium
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(n.) A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam. Atomic weight 94.2. Symbol Cb or Nb. Now more commonly called niobium.
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(1) The comparative materials were the Co-Cr-alloys Remanium CD and Wirobond and the implant materials Titanium, Tantalum and Columbium and the high biocompatible material Teflon.