Talk:Lutetium

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September 10, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
August 25, 2022	Good topic candidate	Promoted

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Some of the text in this entry was rewritten from Los Alamos National Laboratory - Lutetium. Additional text was taken directly from the Elements database 20001107 (via dict.org), Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (via dict.org) and WordNet (r) 1.7 (via dict.org). Data for the table were obtained from the sources listed on the subject page and Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements but were reformatted and converted into SI units.

Least abundant element?

The occurrence section states that this element is "the least abundant of all naturally-occurring elements". The article on Astatine also makes this claim, when it says "Astatine is the rarest naturally occuring element". They can't both be the rarest natrally occuring elements. TerraFrost 02:38, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I think this has already been corrected, but lutetium is ranked as about as abundant as silver. Scott Tygett Sept. 2007

Pronunciation

It's pronounced /luːˈtiːʃiəm/, not /ljuːˈtiːʃiəm/. Imacrab1 (talk) 18:34, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OED has /l(j)uːˈtiːʃɪəm/ or /l(j)uːˈtiːsɪəm/ (BrE), /lʊˈtiʃ(i)əm/ (AmE). Double sharp (talk) 09:57, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What are you even saying Imacrab1 (talk) 11:45, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Occurrence and production: short-lived isotopes

Since some of its main uses are of the very short-lived isotopes (for medical purposes), and these obviously are not naturally occurring, can something be said about how these are produced? Whether here, or in the article about isotopes of lutetium, or somewhere--and then a pointer from here. Mcswell (talk) 14:56, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Johnjbarton (talk) 15:44, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

possible typo: "are sorbed onto suitable"

my ignorance of chemistry is bottomless

Q: is "sorbed" a technical term in chemistry?

not knowing what to do, I will take no further action Howard from NYC (talk) 11:17, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Howard from NYC I changed sorbed to adsorbed, a more specific and perhaps more familiar word. See also sorption though you have to study the page to distinguish "ab" from "ad". Johnjbarton (talk) 15:13, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]