Samarium Definition

sə-mârē-əm, -măr-
noun
A silvery or pale gray metallic rare-earth element found in monazite and bastnaesite and used as a dopant for laser materials, in infrared absorbing glass, and as a neutron absorber in certain nuclear reactors. Atomic number 62; atomic weight 150.36; melting point 1,072°C; boiling point 1,794°C; specific gravity (approximately) 7.520 (25°C); valence 2, 3.
American Heritage
A chemical element, one of the rare-earth elements: symbol, Sm; at. no. 62
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • atomic number 62
  • sm

Origin of Samarium

  • After samarskite, in turn honoring Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets

    From Wiktionary

  • samar(skite) –ium

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Samarium Sentence Examples

  • He established the existence of two new elements, samarium and gadolinium, since investigated more especially by Cleve, to whom most of our knowledge on this subject is due.

  • In 1879, however, Lecoq de Boisbaudran showed that Mosander's "didymium," contained samarium; while the residual "didymium" after removal of samarium, was split by Auer v.

  • Certain absorption bands at the blue end of the spectrum are supposed to be due to rare elements such as samarium.

  • Meyer thinks that the susceptibilities of the metals praseodymium, neodymium, ytterbium, samarium, gadolinium, and erbium, when obtained in a pure form, will be found to equal or even exceed those of the well-known ferromagnetic metals.

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SSASAM

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MUMIUM

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