How to Use lutetium in a Sentence

lutetium

noun

• For the past few years, Dias’ team has worked on a superhydride based on lutetium.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• The least abundant of these, thulium (Tm) and lutetium (Lu) are 200 times more abundant than gold.
  — Willy Shih, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• The new material is made from the rare earth metal lutetium baked in a gas mixture of 99 percent hydrogen and 1 percent nitrogen.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 9 Mar. 2023
• France also appears twice on the periodic table in the form of francium and gallium (from Gaul) and its capital city, Paris, gets a mention (in the form of lutetium).
  — Mark Lorch, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2016
• What Spencer and his colleagues found is that oxygen isotopes as well as the pair of hafnium and lutetium isotopes begin to correlate in magma formed after the explosion of land plants.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2022
• The new superconductor consists of lutetium, a rare earth metal, and hydrogen with a little bit of nitrogen mixed in.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• Salamat has used imaging methods that reveal where the heavy lutetium atoms are within the compound, but the team isn’t yet certain about the configuration of the lighter hydrogen and nitrogen atoms.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
• Before plants, there was no connection between the oxygen and hafnium-lutetium composition of zircon because they were both being set in the Earth's mantle when the magma formed.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2022
• The research team zeroed in on lutetium based on the fact that the occupancy of its electron orbitals should provide a few more electrons that could potentially participate in forming Cooper pairs, possibly making superconductivity easier.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024