rare earth metals
Cerium, neodymium, ytterbium
Rare earth metals are a group of seventeen metallic elements—the fifteen lanthanides plus scandium and yttrium—that share similar chemical properties.
Despite the name, most aren't particularly rare in the earth's crust, but they're difficult to extract and separate.
They're essential for electronics, magnets, batteries, and defense technologies: China dominates rare earth metal production.
Often shortened to rare earths.
- gadoliniumLanthanide, atomic number sixty-four
- yttriumElement number thirty-nine
- scandiumElement twenty-one
- lanthanumAtomic number fifty-seven
- periodic tableSystematic display of elements
magnets · electronics · high tech · cerium · batteries · lutetium · smartphones · samarium · europium · neodymium magnets · permanent magnets · phosphors · holmium · dysprosium · thulium · catalytic converters · superconductors · mining operations
- industrial materialsaluminum, plastics, chemicals, lumber, cement
- ocean resourcesfish stocks, seafood, fisheries, shellfish, kelp
- mineral tradegold trade, diamond trade, coal exports, salt trade, bauxite
- Deoxidizersaluminum, silicon, manganese, calcium, carbon
- element groupshalogens, noble gases, lanthanides, actinides, metalloids
- magnetic materialsiron, nickel, cobalt, magnetite, alnico
rare earth metalsiron
Element twenty-six
aluminum · silicon · copper · base metals · carbon
rare earth metalsalkali metals
Highly reactive soft elements
precious metals · noble metals · transition metals · noble gases · halogens
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