The discovery of the element terbium (Tb, atomic number 65) is still not definitively resolved. Carl Gustav Mosander is generally regarded as the discoverer of the early 1840s. Pure terbium could advent of ion exchange technology to be made first. In nature, terbium is only related cerit, monazite, and gadolinite euxenite front of me. The production design is expressed as the ornate referred Terbium companion have to be removed consuming.
Main producer as in almost all rare earth is currently China. Recently, companies from the U.S. try to break this monopoly of the People’s Republic by open up new occurrence. Through these developments, just like other rare earth terbium still a great investment opportunity.
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