Definitions for "Samarium"
A rare metallic element of doubtful identity.
A chemical element with atomic number 62. Samarium was discovered in 1879 by Paul-émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran in an impure oxide of the mineral samarskite. The name samarium comes from the mineral samarskite. Symbol: Sm. Related to cerium earths. Related to lanthanides. Related to rare earths.
a gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group; is used in special alloys; occurs in monazite and bastnasite
Therapeutic radioisotope under investigation that is linked to a diphosphonate compound, which concentrates in bone.