Selenium Applications
Selenium Applications
Due to its low price and high reliability selenium is used in converting equipment as well as in photocopying (amorphous), photocells (hexagonal) as well as solar cells and in diode rectifiers, selenide synthesis, fluorescence dyes for television, optical and signal instruments, thermistors and so on. It is also used for green glass decolouration and ruby glass manufacture, for obtaining fine grained structure of ingot steel and in stainless steels - for improving mechanical properties. Selenium is a catalyst in many chemical reactions, also in pharmaceutical industry and many others fields.
Selenium is one of the most used heavy atom substitute for sulphur in amino acid methionine for x-ray analysis in protein crystallography.
Other applicationsfor selenium: vulcanizing sulphur additive, production of herbicides, insecticides, dyes, drugs etc.