Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, a Swiss chemist, named samarium in 1853.
The element named after a river is 'samarium,' which is named after the Vistula River in Poland.
Samarium is named after the mineral samarskite, where it was first discovered. The mineral was named in honor of a Russian mine official named Vassili Samarsky-Bykhovets, who was supportive of mineralogical studies in Russia.
Samarium was named after it's ore, samarskite by Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Which in turn was named after Vasili Evgrafovich Samarsky–Bykhovets who was a Russian mining engineer.
Samarium doesn't kill cancer cells. A radioactive isotope of samarium (samarium-153) is used in a chemotherapy agent, but it's the radiation, not the samarium, that kills the cancer cells.
The noble gas notation for samarium is [Xe] 6s2 4f6.
Samarium has six electron shells.
It is also called Samarium in Latin, hoped this helped!
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Samarium typically forms compounds by bonding with elements like oxygen, sulfur, fluorine, and nitrogen. Some common examples include samarium oxide (Sm2O3), samarium sulfide (Sm2S3), samarium fluoride (SmF3), and samarium nitrate (Sm(NO3)3).
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Samarium is a good conductor for heat and electricity.
Samarium is a metal. It is a rare earth element with properties characteristic of metals, such as being shiny, malleable, and having good electrical conductivity.