Talk:Rubidium

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Information Sources

Some of the text in this entry was rewritten from Los Alamos National Laboratory - Rubidium. Additional text was taken directly from USGS Periodic Table - Rubidium. Other information was obtained from the sources listed on the main page but was reformatted and converted into SI units.

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The article cites the 125 micro gram per liter from the Los Alamos study. This paper shows the Concentration to be 123 micro grams per liter.

Talk

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Would it be possible to have a sub heading which explains the dietary function or purposes of each mineral? Considering that this is the dietary section of minerals—Preceding unsigned comment added by Kwezi (talk • contribs)

Does anyone else find this part of the first paragraph a little clumsy ? "Rubidium has only one stable isotope, 85Rb, with the isotope 87Rb, which composes almost 28% of naturally occurring rubidium, being slightly radioactive with a half-life of 49 billion years" ... Perhaps a different wording, such as "Rubidium has only one stable isotope, 85Rb. Another isotope, 87Rb, composes almost 28% of naturally occurring rubidium, and is only slightly radioactive with a half-life of 49 billion years..." 174.61.254.151 (talk) 14:23, 18 May 2013 (UTC)pi@tpsea.com

Agree and tweaked, thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 21:41, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

what industrial applications does rubidium have 2600:1002:B0CE:2F32:B6D1:181F:CDF7:27CC (talk) 15:43, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Rubidium/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

*the use section is a mixture of possible future applications and important uses without the possibility to find the difference.

Last edited at 22:25, 30 September 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 05:01, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Production

Under production the article says, "Today the largest producers of caesium, such as the Tanco Mine, Manitoba, Canada, produce rubidium as a by-product from pollucite". The source for this statement is source #20, which is, "Butterman, William C.; Brooks, William E.; Reese, Robert G. Jr. (2003). "Mineral Commodity Profile: Rubidium" (PDF). United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2010-12-04"

This source is outdated and incorrect.

A more recent Jan 2022 report ''https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2022/mcs2022-rubidium.pdf , states, "Production in Namibia ceased in the early 2000s, followed by the Tanco Mine in Canada shutting down and later being sold after a mine collapse in 2015"

Therefore the statement that the Tanco Mine is the largest producer of Rubidium should either be taken down, or a source more recent than Jan 2022 needs to be provided showing the Tanco mine is still in production. 110.136.219.34 (talk) 08:16, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

Removed the part about Tanco Mine, but left in detail about production via pollucite. Polyamorph (talk) 08:20, 29 October 2022 (UTC)