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What does gadolinium mean?

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Noun
  1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Gd) with an atomic number of 64.
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The neutron, meanwhile, blunders around until it runs into a gadolinium atom.
However, they had enough old Federation-period textbooks still in microprint to know what could be done with gadolinium.
With reference to section 4.1.1 of CMD 08-M29 regarding a decrease in gadolinium in Unit 7 of the Ontario Power Generation Inc.
Patients with frequent relapses often exhibit new lesions after enhancement with gadolinium, indicating focal breakdown of the blood-brain barrier.
Because of its neutron-absorption capacity, gadolinium is used in the manufacture of control rods for nuclear power plants.
A year later Charles Galissard de Marignac in Geneva found a further earth in this substance, which Lecoq isolated in 1886 and called gadolinium.

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