samarium

Examples

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• By comparison, a rare-earth samarium cobalt or neodymium-iron-boron magnet has an energy product of 25 to 40 MGOe.

  Academic text (1995)

• The scientists were interested in a key chemical element, the isotope neodymium-142, formed by the decay of a now-vanished radioactive isotope called samarium-146.

  Blog text (28)

• Also, much of the stuff in the current military arsenal was shipped with samarium cobalt vintage motors.

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• I think the key elements are neodymium, dysprosium, and probably still samarium, since there is no adequate replacement for all of these.

  Blog text (22)

• Or maybe everyone stopped designing new stuff when I exited the industry (more possible than it sounds) and all the stuff is still samarium-cobalt, which means we really need a samarium mine.

  Blog text (22)

• Besides, we used TDK (Japan) as a samarium cobalt magnet source too, and they had their plant in the USA back then.

  Blog text (22)

• Samarium-146 decays to 142Nd with a half-life of 103 million years.

  Academic text (2005)

• In our lab, we have been able to grow sizable (10 x 10 x 1 mm) single crystals for R = terbium-lutetium and yttrium, as well as smaller single crystals for R-neodymium, samarium, and gadolinium.

  Academic text (1998)

• By studying the observed isotopic abundance distribution at Oklo—for example, the ratio of samarium-149 to samarium-147—one can derive constraints on the variation of a.

  Academic text (2004)

• Samarium is a grey metallic element that is essential in creating high-performance samarium magnets.

Synonyms

S

Sm

vssamarium

• Specialized

9.9

A chemical symbol for the metal samarium used in some magnets

has identical meaning but is written as the full element name

A

atomic number 62

vssamarium

• Specialized

8.4

A silvery metal called samarium that is used in powerful magnets and electronics

has identical meaning but uses the element name instead of a label

Surface Forms

Etymology