How was lutetium discovered?

Answer 1

Lutetium never is found alone. Instead, it's found in the earth's crust, along with other rare earth metals. Specifically, there's a chance of finding it where the element yttrium occurs. Lutetium is difficult and expensive to isolate and prepare. As an uncommon and costly rare earth metal, its occurrence tends to encourage its mining only in Australia, Brazil, China, India, Sri Lanka, and the United States of America.

Answer by TedlyW

The rare-earth element Lutetium was first discovered as an impurity in samples of ytterbia. Six times as expensive as gold, lutetium is today found in small concentrations within the rare earth phosphate mineral monazite. Monazite has been found in many places, even in North Carolina in the U.S. But commercially viable deposits today are worked only in Brazil and southern India. Large monazite sand deposits tend to have come from the erosion of large masses of certain granites and gneiss.

Answer 2

Lutetium was discovered by scientists who were carrying out science experiments and scientific research. It was discovered by three scientists who were working independently. Lutetium's modern discoverers were Charles James [1880-1928], an English born chemist in the United States of America; Georges Urbain [1872-1938], a scientist in France; and Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach [September 1, 1858-August 4, 1929], a mineralogist in Austria.

The three scientists were verifying the make up of the mineral ytterbia. Ytterbia was suspected of being made up almost entirely of the element ytterbium. But in the verification process, the three scientists discovered the additional presence of lutetium.

Answer 3

Lutetium was discovered in 1907 by Georges Urbain. He isolated it as an impurity in rare earth elements and named it after the Latin name for Paris, Lutetia, to honor his hometown. After Urbain's discovery, Carl Auer von Welsbach independently isolated the element and named it cassiopeium. It wasn't until 1949 that the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially designated the element as lutetium.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Lutetium was discovered independently in 1907 by Georges Urbain in France and Carl Auer von Welsbach in Germany. Urbain originally called it "cassiopeium".