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Facts About Gadolinium and Technetium


Facts About Technetium and Gadolinium


Facts

Interesting Facts
  • Gadolinium is not found free in nature, hence it is not a native metal.
  • Gadolinium metal found in minerals like Monazite and Bastnaesite.
  
  • Original name of Technetium was Masurium.
  • At the time of its discovery it found in sample of Molybdenum.
  

Sources
Found in Minerals, Mining  
Made by Bombarding Molybdenum with Deuterons  

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac  
Emilio Segrè and Carlo Perriero  

Discovery
In 1880  
In 1937  

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
0.00 %  
23
0.00 %  
40

Abundance In Sun
0.00 %  
25
0.00 %  
18

Abundance In Meteorites
0.00 %  
34
-  

Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.00 %  
30
0.00 %  
99+

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %  
38
-  

Abundance In Humans
0.00 %  
24
-  

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