#samarium

[elementcattos]

Samarium is used in headphones, absolutely make them a boppin cat

YEAH

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Chemists succeed in upscaling a common reagent for industrial level applications

The metallic element samarium, when bound with other elements, is an incredibly useful chemical reagent for synthesizing molecules that can lead to new pharmaceuticals. Discovered in a Russian mine in 1879, the element was named after the mineral it was found in, called samarskite, which itself was named after Russian mining engineer Vassili Samarsky-Bykhovets. The most common samarium reagent is samarium diiodide, which consists of one atom of samarium and two atoms of the element iodine. But scaling up this versatile reagent to quantities large enough to be used in industrial settings has proved challenging. "The reagent is air sensitive, so you often have to prepare the solution fresh, right before the reaction," says Caltech graduate student Chungkeun Shin, who works in the lab of Sarah Reisman, Bren Professor of Chemistry and the Norman Davidson Leadership Chair of Caltech's Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.

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[whats-in-a-sentence]

Here let us call a temporary halt and take a look at the rare earths that were known up to 1907. I will list them in the order of discovery:

Seventeen rare earths were discovered. To be sure, didymium disappeared from the list but that still leaves sixteen.

"The Stars in their Courses" - Isaac Asimov

[fuck-the-periodic-table]

Round 10 - F-Block Part 1

[ravings-of-a-mad-scientist]

samarsky is just a little guy

[periodictabletournament]

Round 1 - Part 1 - Matchup 2

Samarium vs Polonium

[i-saw-your-chanel-boots]

[sporadicarbiterearthquake-blog]

The Rare Earth - Thorium Link

Chapter 10:  The Rare Earth's Thorium Link

How Rare Earths are often discarded as radioactive waste and how the Thorium contained within could provide clean safe and cheap nuclear power

Currently the EPA requires that Thorium (often found in association with rare earth minerals) must be handled in a "...a very specific and costly way...".... causing rare earth mining in the United States to be "prohibitively expensive."  .... however, both the environmental and economic problems associated with rare earth mining and processing in the US might be solved ...(by Thorium extraction and utilization) because Thorium can be used in a special type of nuclear reactor which has been shown to be proliferation resistant and safer than the High Pressure Water Reactors which are based on Uranium.

While there are currently no operating Thorium reactors, in the 1960s there was a Thorium fed Liquid Fluoride Salt Reactor at Oakridge National Laboratory that operated without incident for years until it was shut down by Congress in favor of fast breeder reactors.

[element-tournament]

LANTHANOIDS: ROUND 1 POLL 3

SAMARIUM:

Used in samarium–cobalt magnets, which have permanent magnetization second only to neodymium magnets

EUROPIUM:

the least dense, the softest, and the most volatile lanthanoid

[marv3l-drag0ns]

octopus whos a kitty cat (octopussy cat)

a so fish ticated sardine? (fish in a suit)

just squidding! (squid squirting ink with a silly look on its face)

for aizawa mug graphic you could do a cat flipping someone off? that seems like something he'd have

Oh he absolutely would lmao

Since Hizashi is a mer in this piece im currently thinking about some dumb fish puns lmao

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Uniquely precise: New value for the half-life of samarium-146

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the Australian National University have re-determined the half-life of samarium-146 with great precision. The result fits perfectly with the data astrophysicists and geochemists have obtained from extraterrestrial samples. The study is published today in Scientific Reports. Samarium-146 has a half-life of 103 million years. Or 68 million years. Or maybe 98 million years? Until now, it wasn't known precisely, because researchers have repeatedly come up with contradictory results since the first measurements in the 1950s. For astrophysicists and geochemists, this is a major problem. They need to know the half-life of samarium-146 as accurately as possible to explain the formation of asteroids and planets and to precisely date rocks. Now their uncertainty is over. Samarium-146 has a half-life of 92 million years—which aligns very well with the age assessments of meteorites and moon rocks.

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[whats-in-a-sentence]

Surprisingly few elements have been named after people; at present, only 15 people have been immortalised on the periodic table, and they are listed in table 1.4.

"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.

[winged-mammal]

yes I saw this post this morning. making this poll is what this blog was made for.

[retic-pithon]

fluorine uranium carbon potassium

and if youre feeling funky, add yttrium oxygen and more uranium!

[mpcomagnetics]

Loss of Permanent Magnet Magnetization Due to Cold Temperatures Exposure

Loss of Permanent Magnet Magnetization Due to Cold Temperatures Exposure Loss of magnetization due to cold temperatures exposure is a phenomenon that occurs in various types of materials, particularly in magnetic materials. This phenomenon is commonly known as the “superparamagnetic effect” or “temperature-dependent magnetization.” It results from the thermal agitation of the atomic spins in the…

[eggtrolls]

category is: periodic elements that could be shortened into unsuspectingly normal first names

Example: Molly, short for molybdenum