Unlocking the Mystery of Promethium: The Rare Earth Element Without Stable Isotopes
For the first time, scientists have characterized a promethium coordination complex, advancing the understanding of ...
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In an advance for promethium production, researchers get a new view of the element’s properties
Promethium’s short half-life and lack of stable isotopes makes it difficult to study. In addition, promethium is difficult to ...
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US scientists create first stable promethium complex in rare earth breakthrough
This created a stable compound, allowing the researchers to use X-ray absorption spectroscopy to measure the length of the ...
Beyond the Periodic Table’s Edge: Scientists Unravel New Chemistry for Heavy Elements
Heavy ligands such as polyoxometalates are opening a new frontier in actinide chemistry. Studying materials that are both ...
Rare Element Resources: They've Not Solved The Problem
Rare Element Resources aims to establish domestic rare earth mining, reduce refining costs, and build a processing plant, but ...
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The New Materials that Could Ease Climate Impacts
Safety scientists are speeding the invention of materials to help harvest water from air, capture carbon and produce hydrogen ...
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Eco-friendly rare earth element separation: A bioinspired solution to an industry challenge
These elements, which include the lanthanides along with scandium and ... It's a beautiful and complex structure that can recognize the nuanced and subtle differences between two nearly indistinct ...
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UB, Berkeley Lab scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule ‘berkelocene’
The researchers named the molecule berkelocene because its structure is analogous to a uranium organometallic complex called “uranocene ... table suggests berkelium would behave like the lanthanide ...