Where is SF6 used?

Where is SF6 used?


Its known applications are: In the electric, industrial and medical fields. Window insulation, vehicle tires, magnesium casting within the automobile industry, arc extinguisher and insulator in electrical power equipment, manufacturing of semiconductors, tandem particle accelerators, electron microscopes, tracer gas in mining, in X-ray material analysis equipment, as protection and purification gas for aluminum and magnesium castings, in sports shoes, medical check-ups, in radar systems in military aircraft and other applications.



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