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Introduction: What is Lutetium? Lutetium is a silvery-white rare-earth metal. It is the last element in the lanthanide series. Lutetium was independently found by three scientists (Georges Urbain, Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach, and Charles James) as an impurity in the mineral ytterbia, which was previously thought to consist only of ytterbium. It has an...
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Element Information about Rare Earth Lanthanum
Introduction Lanthanum is a rare-earth element with a silvery-white appearance. It is represented as La and is number one on the lanthanide series. Lanthanum is described as the second most reactive element in the lanthanide series. Contrary to its classification as a rare-earth element, lanthanum is the 28th most abundant element. It is also the...
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Rare Earth Holmium- Facts and Applications
Overview of Holmium Holmium is a silvery-white rare-earth element commonly represented as Ho. This element is soft, malleable, and relatively volatile. Its name is derived from the Latin variant of Stockholm (Holmia). Jacques-Louis Soret and Marc Delafontaine are the two scientists credited for discovering Holmium. It was first discovered in 1878 and was first isolated by...
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Gadolinium is a rare-earth metal commonly used in important applications like magnetic resonance imaging techniques and jewelry manufacture. It is commonly represented as Gd and has an atomic number 64. Since its discovery in 1880 by Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, it wasn’t available in its pure form until Paul-Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran — a...
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