How to Use lutetium in a Sentence

lutetium

noun
  • For the past few years, Dias’ team has worked on a superhydride based on lutetium.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
  • This indicated that some fluid was washing out lutetium from rocks on the asteroid.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The least abundant of these, thulium (Tm) and lutetium (Lu) are 200 times more abundant than gold.
    — Willy Shih, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Anchored at these target sites, the lutetium isotope then releases two types of radiation that aid in cancer treatment.
    — Discover Magazine, 8 July 2024
  • The new superconductor consists of lutetium, a rare earth metal, and hydrogen with a little bit of nitrogen mixed in.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The new material is made from the rare earth metal lutetium baked in a gas mixture of 99 percent hydrogen and 1 percent nitrogen.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The team at Rochester started with a small, thin foil of lutetium, a silvery white metal that is among the rarest of rare earth elements, and pressed it between two interlocking diamonds.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • What Spencer and his colleagues found is that oxygen isotopes as well as the pair of hafnium and lutetium isotopes begin to correlate in magma formed after the explosion of land plants.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Salamat has used imaging methods that reveal where the heavy lutetium atoms are within the compound, but the team isn’t yet certain about the configuration of the lighter hydrogen and nitrogen atoms.
    — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Before plants, there was no connection between the oxygen and hafnium-lutetium composition of zircon because they were both being set in the Earth's mantle when the magma formed.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The Ryugu samples hauled home by Hayabusa2 contained larger quantities of hafnium isotopes compared to lutetium isotopes than were expected.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • France also appears twice on the periodic table in the form of francium and gallium (from Gaul) and its capital city, Paris, gets a mention (in the form of lutetium).
    — Mark Lorch, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2016
  • Numerous other therapies now in clinical trials also use radioactive lutetium and other beta-emitting isotopes.
    — Discover Magazine, 8 July 2024
  • After the retraction by Physical Review Letters, most of the authors of the lutetium hydride paper concluded that the research from their paper was flawed too.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The research team zeroed in on lutetium based on the fact that the occupancy of its electron orbitals should provide a few more electrons that could potentially participate in forming Cooper pairs, possibly making superconductivity easier.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2023

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