Lutetium Metal

Product Detail

Brief information Formula: Lu CAS No.: 7439-94-3 Molecular Weight: 174.97 Density: 9.840 gm/cc Melting point: 1652 °C Appearance: Silvery grey lump pieces, ingot, rods or wires Stability: Fairly stable in air Ductibility: Medium Multilingual: LutetiumMetall, Metal De Lutecium, Metal Del Lutecio Application 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. Lutetium Metal can be further processed to various shapes of ingots, pieces, wires, foils, slabs, rods, discs and powder. Specification

Product Code	Lutetium Metal
Grade	99.99%	99.99%	99.9%	99%
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
Lu/TREM (% min.)	99.99	99.99	99.9	99.9
TREM (% min.)	99.9	99.5	99	81
Rare Earth Impurities	ppm max.	ppm max.	% max.	% max.
Eu/TREM Gd/TREM Tb/TREM Dy/TREM Ho/TREM Er/TREM Tm/TREM Yb/TREM Y/TREM	10 10 20 20 20 50 50 50 30	10 10 20 20 20 50 50 50 30	0.003 0.003 0.003 0.003 0.003 0.003 0.03 0.03 0.05	Totally 1.0
Non-Rare Earth Impurities	ppm max.	ppm max.	% max.	% max.
Fe Si Ca Al Mg W Ta O C Cl	200 50 100 50 50 500 50 300 100 50	500 100 500 100 100 500 100 1000 100 100	0.15 0.03 0.05 0.01 0.01 0.05 0.01 0.15 0.01 0.01	0.15 0.01 0.05 0.01 0.01 0.05 0.05 0.2 0.03 0.02