Glossary · term
Rare earths
Mining & Metallurgy
- Aliases
- rare earth, rare-earth, lanthanide, lanthanides, REE
- Domain
- Mining & Metallurgy
Definition
The fifteen lanthanides plus scandium and yttrium — not rare, but so alike chemically that separating them takes hundreds of solvent-extraction stages. Neodymium magnets are the reason anyone cares.
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