Properties of samarium Samarium, part of the lanthanide group of elements, is fairly stable in air and has a bright silver sheen. Three crystal modifications of the metal exist, with ...

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Nuclear triumph Zeynep Talip, Rugard Dressler, and Dorothea Schumann (left to right) revel in their success at measuring the half-life of samarium-146. (Courtesy: Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Markus ...

“We report on the first visible orange samarium laser directly pumped by a blue 465 nm GaN semiconductor laser diode,” wrote Alain Braud and colleagues in the abstract of the paper. “Our work ...

7 that F-35 fighter jet deliveries were temporarily halted following the discovery that a subcontractor had made a magnet using a cobalt and samarium alloy that came from China. (Capt. Kip Sumner ...

Samarium (Sm), a rare earth metal, is important to organic chemists because of the ability of its divalent compounds to efficiently perform single-electron transfer reductions. Samarium iodide ...

The Pentagon suspended deliveries of the F-35 fighter jet in September after it discovered the aircraft's engine manufactured by Honeywell uses a magnet that includes a cobalt and samarium alloy ...

7 after determining that all 850 jets delivered to date include Chinese materials in the samarium-cobalt alloy magnets placed within the Honeywell integrated power package (IPP) subsystem.

Included in the list of minerals subject to controls was samarium and its compounds, which are used in aerospace manufacturing and the defense sector. Another element called gadolinium is used in ...

To evade radar detection, a special magnetic material like samarium cobalt can be applied on the aircraft's surface. (Image: Freepik) Cobalt alloys possess excellent resistance to wear ...