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Thulium

Description: Thulium is silver-gray, soft, malleable, ductile, and knife-cuttable. There are 25 known isotopes, with atomic masses ranging from 152 to 176. Natural thulium with is pure 169Tm, is stable.

Source: Thulium can be isolated by reduction of the oxide with lanthanum metal or by calcium reduction of a closed container.