 Discovery Information |
| Who:
Georges Urbain
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| When: 1907 |
| Where: France |
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| Name Origin |
| From Lutetia the ancient name of Paris. |
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| Sources |
| Found with ytterbium in gadolinite and xenotime. |
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| Uses |
| This element is very expensive to obtain in useful quantities and therefore it has very few commercial uses. Used in alloys and can be used as a catalyst in cracking, hydrogenation, polymerization and alkylation. |
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| Notes |
| Because of the difficulty in producing pure lutetium it is one of the most expensive metals, costing around six times as much per gram as gold. |
