Metals Fact Sheet: Gadolinium GD
Journal Article
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· Elements
OSTI ID:245483
Gadolinium is a silvery-white, malleable, ductile metallic element used to improve the high-temperature characteristics of iron, chromium, and related metallic alloys. It was named after the French chemist, Gadolin, discoverer of yttrium. This article discusses sources of the element, the world supply and demand, and also a number of applications. With the largest thermal neutron absorption cross section of any element, one of these applications is as a burnable poison in reactors and as neutron absorbers in other nuclear devices.
- OSTI ID:
- 245483
- Journal Information:
- Elements, Vol. 1, Issue 2; Other Information: PBD: Oct 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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