Rare-earth element
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rare-earth-element-187-16589783
title:
Rare-earth element
text:
The rare-earth elements (REE), also called the rare-earth metals or rare earths or, in context, rare-earth oxides, and sometimes the lanthanides, are a set of 17 nearly indistinguishable lustrous silvery-white soft heavy metals. Compounds containing rare earths have diverse applications in electrical and electronic components, lasers, glass, magnetic materials, and industrial processes. Scandium and yttrium are considered rare-earth elements because they tend to occur in the same ore deposits as
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Any of the fifteen lanthanides plus scandium and yttrium
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_element
date created:
2002-11-09T14:03:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T03:52:56Z
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13
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16