单词 | gadolinium |
释义 | gadoliniumn. A soft, silvery-white, metallic chemical element of the lanthanide series, atomic number 64. Symbol Gd.Gadolinium occurs in monazite, gadolinite, and some other minerals and is used in nuclear technology and radiography (on account of its ability to absorb neutrons) and in some magnetic alloys. ΚΠ 1886 Nature 29 Apr. 623/1 At the author's [sc. M. Lecoq de Boisbaudran's] suggestion, M. Marignac, discoverer of this rare earth, has at last definitely named it gadolinium (symbol Gd). 1920 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 118 ii. 317 The fractional crystallisation of the acetates effects a rapid separation of gadolinium from samarium and didymium. 1938 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity (ed. 2) x. 119 Gadolinium..absorbs slow neutrons very strongly. 1961 M. M. Woyski & W. J. Silvernail in F. H. Spedding & A. H. Daane Rare Earths xxi. 517 A temperature of 0·29 K was obtained by the adiabatic demagnetization of gadolinium sulfate octahydrate. 1990 Brain 113 367 Lanthanum and gadolinium nitrates..were used as smaller molecular weight markers of blood–brain barrier breakdown. 2009 B. D. Cullity & C. D. Graham Introd. Magn. Materials (ed. 2) v. 172 Gadolinium (Gd) just misses being ferromagnetic at room temperature; its Curie point is 16°C. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1886 |
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