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A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group
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gadolinium
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group [syn: Gd , atomic number 64 ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gadolinium \Gad`o*lin"i*um\, n. [NL. See Gadolinite .] (Chem.) A rare earth metallic element of the Lanthanide series, with a characteristic spectrum, found associated with yttrium and other rare earth elements. Symbol, Gd; it has an atomic number of 64, ...
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Gadolinium is a chemical element with symbol Gd and atomic number 64. It is a silvery-white, malleable and ductile rare-earth metal. It is found in nature only in combined (salt) form. Gadolinium was first detected spectroscopically in 1880 by de Marignac ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
metallic element, with element ending -ium + gadolinia , an earth named 1886 by J.C. Marginac in honor of Johan Gadolin (1760-1852), Finnish mineralogist and chemist, who in 1794 first began investigation of the earth (subsequently called gadolinite , 1802) ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A metallic chemical element (''symbol'' Gd) with an atomic number of 64.
Usage examples of gadolinium.
Detected were: iron, silicon, carbon, platinum, gold, lead, indium, gallium, gadolinium, dysprosium, lanthanum, xenon, potassium, astatine.
However, they had enough old Federation period textbooks still in microprint to know what could be done with gadolinium.
However, they had enough old Federation-period textbooks still in microprint to know what could be done with gadolinium.
Tin barely makes it into the top fifty, eclipsed by such relative obscurities as praseodymium, samarium, gadolinium, and dysprosium.
The fourth ferromagnetic element is gadolinium, one of the rare earth metals.
There are thirteen other very similar rare earth metals, but only gadolinium seems to be ferromagnetic.