coltan

solid solution of columbite and tantalite one in another; a tantalum/niobium ore
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coltan

Summary

coltan ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (344 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • coltan's image is recorded as Ferrocolumbite-Manganotantalite-rh3-36b.jpg[2].
  • coltan's made from material is recorded as columbite-(Mn)[3].
  • coltan's made from material is recorded as columbite-(Fe)[4].
  • coltan's made from material is recorded as tantalite-(Mn)[5].
  • coltan's made from material is recorded as tantalite-(Mg)[6].
  • coltan's GND ID is recorded as 1071850369[7].
  • coltan's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 13615954f[8].
  • coltan's IdRef ID is recorded as 056568940[9].
  • coltan's subclass of is recorded as ore[10].
  • coltan's Commons category is recorded as Columbite-Tantalite[11].
  • coltan's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 52457[12].
  • coltan's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0nr9z[13].
  • coltan's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[14].
  • coltan's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/coltan[15].
  • coltan's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00020792n[16].
  • coltan's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as colombite-tantalite[17].
  • coltan's NE.se ID is recorded as coltan[18].
  • coltan's Quora topic ID is recorded as Coltan[19].
  • coltan's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as coltan[20].
  • coltan's UK Parliament thesaurus ID is recorded as 9265[21].
  • coltan's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i114079[22].
  • coltan's ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID is recorded as 377271187[23].
  • coltan's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780058565[24].
  • coltan's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 14696534-n[25].

Why It Matters

coltan ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (344 views/month).[1] coltan has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] coltan is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . mineralienatlas.de. Retrieved . mineralienatlas.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . mineralienatlas.de. Retrieved . mineralienatlas.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . mineralienatlas.de. Retrieved . mineralienatlas.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . mineralienatlas.de. Retrieved . mineralienatlas.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . SUDOC. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . mineralienatlas.de. Retrieved . mineralienatlas.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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