Europium
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Europium is a chemical element; it has symbol Eu and atomic number 63. It is a silvery-white metal of the lanthanide series that reacts readily with air to form a dark oxide coating. Europium is the m
Europium
About 300 g of dendritic sublimated 99.998% pure europium handled in a glove box
Oxidized europium, coated with yellow europium(II) carbonate
Europium(III) sulfate, Eu2(SO4)3
Gadolinium
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Gadolinium is a chemical element; it has symbol Gd and atomic number 64. It is a silvery-white metal when oxidation is removed. Gadolinium is a ductile and malleable rare-earth element. It reacts with
Europium
…Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran obtained basic fractions from samarium-gadolinium concentrates which had spectral lines not accounted for by samarium or gadolinium. French chemist Eugène-Anatole Demarçay made detailed studies of the spectral lines and suspected these samples of the recently discovered element…
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A sample of gadolinium metal
Johan Gadolin is the namesake of gadolinite, the mineral that gadolinium is named after
Gadolinite