• Lutetium

    Alternative forms

    • lutecium no longer used after 1949, when lutetium was made the official spelling

    Origin

    From Latin Lutetia ("Paris, the capital of France").

    Full definition of lutetium

    Noun

    lutetium

    (uncountable)
    1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Lu) with an atomic number of 71.

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