Au 金 79 196.966569 11 6 d 79 1064.0 3080.0 [Xe] 4f14 5d10 6s1 2 8 18 32 18 1 19.3 3.1E-7% Gold Cubic: Face centered 2.5 1.92 {"1":"890.1","2":"1980"} 890 222.8 +3,1 1.46 10.2 12.36 324.43 0.128 317.0 0 Solid, Diamagnetic, Conductor, TransitionMetal, Metal, Stable, Natural GOLD Soft, malleable, bright yellow metal. Very malleable. Used in electronics, jewelry and coins. It is a good reflector of infrared radiation, so a thin film of gold is applied to the glass of skyscrapers to reduce internal heating from sunlight. Found in veins in the crust, with cooper ore and native . 3OoLHe-4aNA Gold

Gadolinium was first detected spectroscopically in 1880 by the Swiss chemist Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac who separated its oxide.

He observed spectroscopic lines due to gadolinium in samples of gadolinite and in the separate mineral cerite.

The metal was isolated by Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1886. From gadolinite, a mineral named for Gadolin, a Finnish chemist 79 From the Anglo-Saxon word "gold" (the origin of the symbol Au is the Latin word "aurum" meaning "gold")

Gadolinium is considered to be moderately toxic

Gadolinium has the highest neutron cross-section among any stable nuclides

Gadolinium is used to make gadolinium yttrium garnets which have microwave applications.

It is also used in intravenous radiocontrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Gadolinium compounds are used for making green phosphors for color TV tubes, and in manufacturing compact discs.