Talk:Rubidium

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Article changed over to WikiProject Elements format by User:maveric149. Elementbox converted 14:26, 5 July 2005 by Femto (previous revision was that of 21:26, 1 July 2005).

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. -- 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. 

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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)

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This source is outdated and incorrect.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)

Applications
The Quantum surrogate for classical aviation GPS after Einstein's era?

What you think about these?

The article explains, that by 2023 aviation will be much safer for the cutting-edge quantum progress.

For so called Quantum navigation works by using an array of lasers to cool a cloud of rubidium atoms (the atoms ergo particles route alters; re-interference)...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/13/british-built-unhackable-navigational-system-takes-off/?s=09 Kartasto (talk) 06:10, 14 May 2024 (UTC)