lutetium [Lu] (lutecium)
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Introduction
Also see lanthanide.
Characteristics
- metallic element of the rare earth group
Notes
- discovered in 1907 by French scientist Georges Urbain, Austrian mineralogist Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach, & American chemist Charles James
- all of these men found lutetium as an impurity in the mineral ytterbia[3]
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References
- ↑ Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, Miriam- Webster Inc. Springfield, MA 1990
- ↑ Chemical & Engineering News, Sept 8, 2003
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wikipedia: Lutetium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutetium