Chemical Property of Lutetium
Chemical Property:
- Appearance/Colour:Silver solid (ingot, chunk, foil, powder) odorless
- Melting Point:1663 °C(lit.)
- Boiling Point:3402 °C(lit.)
- PSA：0.00000
- Density:9.84 g/mL at 25 °C(lit.)
- LogP:0.00000
- Storage Temp.:Flammables area
- Sensitive.:Air & Moisture Sensitive
- Water Solubility.:Insoluble in water.
- Hydrogen Bond Donor Count:0
- Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count:0
- Rotatable Bond Count:0
- Exact Mass:174.94078
- Heavy Atom Count:1
- Complexity:0
- Purity/Quality:
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99.99% *data from raw suppliers
Lutetium powder (99.9% REO) *data from reagent suppliers
Safty Information:
- Pictogram(s):
F
Xi
- Hazard Codes:F,Xi
- Statements:
11-36/38
- Safety Statements:
16-33-36/37/39-26
- MSDS Files:
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SDS file from LookChem
Total 1 MSDS from other Authors
Useful:
- Chemical Classes:Metals -> Rare Earth Metals
- Canonical SMILES:[Lu]
- Recent ClinicalTrials:A Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Dosimetry, and Anti-tumor Activity of Ga-68-NGUL / Lu-177-DGUL in Patients With Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC) Refractory to Standard Therapy
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Physical properties
In the last (17th) position in the lanthanide series, lutetium is the heaviest and largestmolecule of all the rare-earths as well as the hardest and most corrosion-resistant. It has asilvery-white color and is somewhat stable under normal atmospheric conditions.Its melting point is 1,663°C, its boiling point is 3,402°C, and its density is 9.84g/cm3.
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Uses
Lutetium is the last member of the rare earth series. Unlike most rare earths it lacks a magnetic moment. It also has the smallest metallic radius of any rare earth. It is perhaps the least naturally abundant of the Lanthanides. It is the ideal host for x-ray phosphors because it produces the densest known white material, Lutetium Tantalate (LuTaO4). It is utilized as a dopant in matching lattice parameters of certain substrate garnet crystals, such as Indium-Gallium-Garnet (IGG) crystals due its lack of a magnetic moment.
Lutetium isotopes can data the age of meteorites and are used to target tumors experimentally. Stable lutetium can be used as catalysts in petroleum cracking in refineries and can also be used in alkylation, hydrogenation, and polymerization applications.
Lutetium Metal, is the hardest metal of the rare-earths, used as important additive to some specialty alloy. Stable Lutetium can be used as catalysts in petroleum cracking in refineries and can also be used in alkylation, hydrogenation, and polymerization applications. Lutetium is used as a phosphor in LED light bulbs. Because lutetium is difficult to prepare on a large scale, its practical uses are limited. Someof its radioisotopes are used as catalysts in the cracking (refining) process of crude oil, whichproduces lighter fractions such as diesel fuel and gasoline. It can also be used as a catalyst tospeed up the reaction in some hydrogenation processes wherein hydrogen is added to vegetableoils to make more solid products. Some of its isotopes have been used to determine theage of meteorites. Lutetium is used as an additive for special steel, non-ferric alloy, hydrogen storage alloy, also reducer for making other rare Earth metal. Pipe materials of reactor system. Used in Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) processes, including thermal and electron-beam (e-beam) evaporation, for the preparation of thin films.
