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Facts About Lutetium and Niobium


Facts About Niobium and Lutetium


Facts

Interesting Facts
  • Metal dust of Lutetium element is highly explosive.
  • Lutetium metal is corrosion resistance and acts stable in air.
  
  • Niobium metal was used to get called Columbium in past.
  • Niobium metal found freely in nature (abundance).
  

Sources
Found in Minerals, Mining, Ores of Minerals   
By-product of Tin Extraction, Found in Minerals, Mining, Ores of Minerals   

History
  
  

Who Discovered
Georges Urbain and Carl Auer von Welsbach   
Charles Hatchett   

Discovery
In 1906   
In 1801   

Abundance
  
  

Abundance In Universe
1 * 10-8 %   
30
2 * 10-7 %   
22

Abundance In Sun
~0.0000001 %   
26
~0.0000004 %   
23

Abundance In Meteorites
0.00 %   
99+
0.00 %   
35

Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.00 %   
99+
0.00 %   
25

Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %   
99+
0.00 %   
34

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