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Magically magnetic gadolinium

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Pekka Pyykkö discusses the history and characteristics of gadolinium.

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  1. Pekka Pyykkö is professor emeritus in the Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, POB 55, 00014 Helsinki, Finland. His former position as 'the parallel chair of chemistry' was split from Gadolin's chair of chemistry in 1908.,

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Pyykkö, P. Magically magnetic gadolinium. Nature Chem 7, 680 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2287

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