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    Rare-earth elements in the periodic table The rare-earth elements (REE), also called the rare-earth metals or rare earths or, in context, rare-earth oxides...
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    A rare-earth mineral contains one or more rare-earth elements as major metal constituents. Rare-earth minerals are usually found in association with alkaline...
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  • thorium hydroxide (Th(OH)4) contaminated with ~3% of rare-earth hydroxides; the rest of rare-earth hydroxides remains in solution. Thorium hydroxide is...
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    A rare-earth magnet is a strong permanent magnet made from alloys of rare-earth elements. Developed in the 1970s and 1980s, rare-earth magnets are the...
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    Scandium (redirect from Element 21)
    element; it has symbol Sc and atomic number 21. It is a silvery-white metallic d-block element. Historically, it has been classified as a rare-earth element...
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    Lanthanum (redirect from Element 57)
    hidden'. Although it is classified as a rare earth element, lanthanum is the 28th most abundant element in the Earth's crust, almost three times as abundant...
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    Dysprosium (redirect from Element 66)
    Dysprosium is a chemical element; it has symbol Dy and atomic number 66. It is a rare-earth element in the lanthanide series with a metallic silver luster...
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    Yttrium (redirect from Element 39)
    been classified as a "rare-earth element". Yttrium is almost always found in combination with lanthanide elements in rare-earth minerals and is never...
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    Europium (redirect from Element 63)
    Europium is one of the rarest of the rare-earth elements on Earth. Its discoverer, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay named the element after the continent of Europe....
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    relative proportion within the mineral: lanthanum is the most common rare-earth element in monazite-(La), and so forth. Silica (SiO2) is present in trace...
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  • elements facing shortage Rare-earth element Strategic material Renewable energy#Conservation areas, recycling and rare-earth elements U.S. Department...
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    Erbium (redirect from Element 68)
    a lanthanide, a rare-earth element, originally found in the gadolinite mine in Ytterby, Sweden, which is the source of the element's name. Erbium's principal...
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    Holmium (redirect from Element 67)
    Holmium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ho and atomic number 67. It is a rare-earth element and the eleventh member of the lanthanide series. It is...
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    Praseodymium (redirect from Element 59)
    chemical element; it has symbol Pr and the atomic number 59. It is the third member of the lanthanide series and is considered one of the rare-earth metals...
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    Johan Gadolin (category Rare earth scientists)
    Gadolin discovered a "new earth" containing the first rare-earth compound yttrium, which was later determined to be a chemical element. He is also considered...
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    Regolith-hosted rare earth element deposits (also known as ion-adsorption deposits) are rare-earth element (REE) ores in decomposed rocks that are formed...
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    Neodymium (redirect from Element 60)
    chemical element; it has symbol Nd and atomic number 60. It is the fourth member of the lanthanide series and is considered to be one of the rare-earth metals...
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    Hadron Collider, which utilizes low-temperature superconductors. Any rare-earth element can be used in a ReBCO; popular choices include yttrium (YBCO), lanthanum...
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  • in group 3, it behaves similarly to the other 14. The term rare-earth element or rare-earth metal is often used to include the stable group 3 elements...
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  • The Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine and Processing Facility, owned by MP Materials, is an open-pit mine of rare-earth elements on the south flank of the...
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  • often been classified as a "rare earth element". Yttrium is almost always found combined with the lanthanides in rare earth minerals and is never found...
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    chemically similar rare-earth elements; it was also used to confirm that Georges Urbain's claimed discovery of a new rare-earth element (celtium) was invalid...
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    discovery of element 72: Georges Urbain claimed to have discovered it as the rare earth element celtium, but Bury and Bohr had predicted that element 72 could...
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    Lanthanites are a group of isostructural rare earth element (REE) carbonate minerals. This group comprises the minerals lanthanite-(La), lanthanite-(Ce)...
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    Gadolinium (redirect from Element 64)
    paramagnetic element. It is found in nature only in an oxidized form. When separated, it usually has impurities of the other rare-earths because of their...
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    claims that element 72 was a rare earth element discovered in 1911, Dirk Coster and Georg von Hevesy were motivated to search for the new element in zirconium...
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    the mineral is divided into three minerals based on the predominant rare-earth element. There is bastnäsite-(Ce) with a more accurate formula of (Ce, La)CO3F...
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    Hafnium (redirect from Element 72)
    claims that element 72 was a rare earth element discovered in 1911, Dirk Coster and Georg von Hevesy were motivated to search for the new element in zirconium...
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  • abundance of elements in Earth's crust is shown in tabulated form with the estimated crustal abundance for each chemical element shown as mg/kg, or parts...
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    alkaline earth metals occur in nature, although radium occurs only through the decay chain of uranium and thorium and not as a primordial element. There...
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