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  • Minerals like Monazite and Bentonite are the usual sources but to get just the Lutetium out, for example, you end up having to purify them all out.

    The Register 2010

  • For example, Lutetium is magneto-electric, meaning that a change in a magnetic field will produce a change in current: just as piezo-electric materials produce a change in response to a change in mechanical stress.

    The Register 2010

  • Those with good memories of Chemistry O Level will know what the rare earths are: the funny little line of elements from Lanthanum to Lutetium at the bottom of the periodic table, along with Yttrium and Scandium, which we usually add to the list.

    The Register 2010

  • We do that in an MRI machine, which is why at the heart of one is a great big Lutetium oxide crystal.

    The Register 2010

  • Lutetium and thulium based rare earth bulk metallic glasses

    歪酷博客 Ycool Blog 2008

  • Lutetium and thulium based rare earth bulk metallic glasses

    歪酷博客 Ycool Blog 2008

  • Camp Skarn & Shark Bowl) are anomalously enriched with the rarer, and typical higher value, heavy rare earth element series (HREE - defined as Europium (Eu) through to Lutetium

    Resource Investor - Main Content Feed 2009

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