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  • n  a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group; isotope 170 emits X-rays and is used in small portable X-ray machines; it occurs in monazite and apatite and xenotime

  • Physicist West formed thulium into tiny pellets which he made radioactive by cooking in a nuclear reactor.
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