1. Samarium can also be obtained by reducing its oxide with lanthanum.2. Samarium has five naturally occurring isotopes and neodymium has seven.3. This solution gave x-ray spectra attributed to samarium and element 61. 4. Samarium is one of the few lanthanides that exhibit the oxidation state + 2.5. Another important application of samarium and its compounds is as catalyst and chemical reagent. 6. Modern driver magnets are almost always permanent and made of ceramic, samarium cobalt. 7. Samarium -149 is the second most important neutron poison in nuclear reactor physics.8. A newly discovered activator is Samarium ( II ), added to calcium fluoride. 9. The Samarium Cobalt Noiseless pickups, 4 + 1 tuners and an 18V preamp. 10. In this sense samarium was the first chemical element to be named after a person.
