Gadolinium is element 64, a lanthanoid of the f block, in period 6. Its ground-state configuration is [Xe] 4f7 5d1 6s2, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 3.
It was discovered in 1880, by de Marignac.
Name origin: Johan Gadolin, chemist, physicist and mineralogist.
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