IIRC Tungsten Rhenium alloy is used for the rotating anode in X-ray tubes.
Extremely high melting point. Cheers......Don C.

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 7:43 PM Mark Sims <[email protected]> wrote:

> I once bought a spool of tungsten-rhenium alloy wire on ebay for dirt
> cheap.   A few weeks later a guy contacted me and offered a lot of money
> for it.  Turns out they used it to rebuild TWTs.
>
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> > I wonder what sort of cathode material they use?
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