Isolating the element thulium was a truly laborious process that took many years.
Charles James had to carry out 15,000 recrystallisations to prepare his sample when he was wanting to determine the atomic weight of thulium, says Professor Allan Blackman from the Auckland University of Technology, in episode 86 of Elemental.
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Professor Allan Blackman is at Auckland University of Technology.
