Samarium - Periodic Table of Videos
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So here, this is a really quite unusual sample from Goodfellow and you see this is samarium, so this is one of the lanthanides. Ok so samarium is a beautiful element to work with as it can change what we refer to as oxidation states very easily which gives it many more things it can do in chemistry. It’s also a fascinating element in the sense that we can use it to date samples from the moon. So this is a sample of samarium and there’s is a very small amount of it here, perhaps half of a gram. But you know there's some interesting things we can see about this package because we can see on this label it says “packed in argon – handle with care.” Now it’s packed in argon because argon is very, very inert, it doesn’t react with anything, so it’s used to store, safely, thi...
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So here, this is a really quite unusual sample from Goodfellow and you see this is samarium, so this is one of the lanthanides. Ok so samarium is a beautiful element to work with as it can change what we refer to as oxidation states very easily which gives it many more things it can do in chemistry. It’s also a fascinating element in the sense that we can use it to date samples from the moon. So this is a sample of samarium and there’s is a very small amount of it here, perhaps half of a gram. But you know there's some interesting things we can see about this package because we can see on this label it says “packed in argon – handle with care.” Now it’s packed in argon because argon is very, very inert, it doesn’t react with anything, so it’s used to store, safely, thi...
