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  • in air. It was the "secret" element used in the production of ... and uranium ores, but never as a free element. It is commercially recovered ...
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  • toxic, and highly radioactive chemical element. It is found in small amounts ... A very rare element in nature, polonium is found in uranium ores at ...
    11 KB (1,554 words) - 08:39, 24 November 2022
  • (chemical symbol Pr, atomic number 59) is a soft silvery metallic ... "didymium" (meaning "twin element") from lanthana. It ...
    12 KB (1,535 words) - 22:14, 30 November 2022
  • as primary sources of extraction of the element or its compounds. Rather ... Before gallium was discovered, the element and many of its properties ...
    15 KB (2,122 words) - 04:06, 18 April 2024
  • number 64) is a silvery white metallic element and a member of the lanthanide ... In nature, gadolinium is found not as the free element but in various ...
    13 KB (1,750 words) - 07:39, 15 April 2024
  • for many years before isolation of the element fluorine. For example, the ... acid contained a previously unknown element. This element, however, ...
    13 KB (1,855 words) - 17:47, 28 March 2024
  • compounds but it does not exist as a free element in nature. Minerals that ... Denmark. Based on the Bohr Theory, this element was predicted to be associated ...
    10 KB (1,277 words) - 16:40, 21 January 2024
  • Scandinavia and elsewhere. It is a rare element that chemically resembles ... This element is mainly used in alloys with aluminum for minor components ...
    12 KB (1,615 words) - 17:06, 25 January 2023
  • Wilhelm Hisinger, he discovered a new element, cerium. His studies of ... current on several diseases. During this period, a mine owner, Wilhelm Hisinger ...
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  • number 52) is a relatively rare chemical element that belongs to the group ... This element is primarily used in alloys. For instance, when added ...
    14 KB (1,880 words) - 05:35, 27 February 2023
  • a lustrous, hard, grayish-white chemical element. It is classified as a metalloid—that ... of certain coals. A large reserve of this element is found in coal sources. ...
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  • atomic number 58) is a silvery metallic element that is a member of the ... Cerium is an inner transition metal (or lanthanide) that lies in period ...
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  • and compounds represented by combining element symbols and numbers representing ... similar to one another, as was the second element in each group, and the third ...
    15 KB (2,217 words) - 15:59, 25 January 2023
  • (chemical symbol Nd, atomic number 60) is a silvery metallic element ... In nature, neodymium is found not as the free element but in ores ...
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  • This element is a highly effective hardener and wear-resistant agent ... This element is generally found in ores with the other platinum group ...
    13 KB (1,814 words) - 18:24, 22 December 2022
  • number 88) is an extremely radioactive element that is classified as an ... care. Exposure to radiation from this element can lead to sores on the ...
    13 KB (1,820 words) - 22:47, 7 December 2022
  • Vanadium is never found as a free element in nature, but it occurs ... him of chromium salts, so he named the element "panchromium." ...
    15 KB (2,022 words) - 14:18, 3 May 2023
  • Cl2. Given its high reactivity, the free element is not found in nature. ... experiments indicated that this gas was an element, not a compound. He named ...
    15 KB (2,040 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
  • , though translated as “phase” or “element,” is a verb meaning “to ... Each of the five agents is associated with a specific element in each ...
    19 KB (2,730 words) - 14:06, 20 May 2023
  • various ores and is important as a trace element in the human body. It is ... of transition metals. It is located in period four of the periodic table ...
    13 KB (1,769 words) - 22:14, 7 January 2024

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