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

  1. Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, Miriam- Webster Inc. Springfield, MA 1990
  2. Chemical & Engineering News, Sept 8, 2003
  3. 3.0 3.1 Wikipedia: Lutetium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutetium

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