{{Element | name=Lutetium | symbol=Lu | anumber=71 | amass=174.967 amu | state=Solid | class=Metallic | cstructure=Hexagonal| color=silvery white | date=1907 | discname=Georges Urbain, Carl Auer von Welsbach and Charles James | origname=From ''Lutetia'', the ancient name of Paris. | uses=Used in alloys and can be used as a catalyst in cracking, hydrogenation, polymerization and alkylation. It's primary use is in chemical research. | obtained=Found with [[ytterbium]] in [[gadolinite]] and [[xenotime]]. Its chief ores are [[monazite]] and [[bastnasite]]. }}
{{Element | name=Lutetium | symbol=Lu | anumber=71 | amass=174.967 amu | state=Solid | class=Metallic | cstructure=Hexagonal| color=silvery white | date=1907 | discname=Georges Urbain, Carl Auer von Welsbach and Charles James | origname=From ''Lutetia'', the ancient name of Paris. | uses=Used in alloys and can be used as a catalyst in cracking, hydrogenation, polymerization and alkylation. It's primary use is in chemical research. | obtained=Found with [[ytterbium]] in [[gadolinite]] and [[xenotime]]. Its chief ores are [[monazite]] and [[bastnasite]]. }}
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'''Lutetium''' is the hardest and densest of the rare-earth metals.
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'''Lutetium''' is the hardest and densest of the rare earth [[metal]]s.