Thulium Acetate is the important dopant for silica-based fiber amplifiers. It can also be used in portable X-ray devices that has been bombarded in a nuclear reactor as a radiation source. Used as laboratory reagent, optical glasses, structural ceramics, catalysts, electrical components and photo-optical material. The other main application is used for optical fiber.

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