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What
the name means:
Lutetium was named after
the Latin word for Paris, Lutetia.
Who
identified
lutetium? Lutetium was identified
by the French scientist, Georges
Urbain, and the Austrian scientist, Carl
Auer von Welsbach in 1907.
About
lutetium: Lutetium
is one of the members of the group of
elements know as the rare earths. There are
sixteen elements in this group. The word
“earth” was used to describe the oxide of
metals. The word “rare” was applied to
these sixteen elements because it was
believed that their metal oxides were not
present in any great quantity in the
Earth’s crust. In fact, for most of the
elements in this group, this is not the
case. Their metal oxides are quite
abundant, although they often occur mixed
with other compounds. |
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