rare earth
the oxide of any of the rare-earth elements contained in various minerals.
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China is currently the world’s dominant producer of rare earths, used in a wide range of advanced tech products, having taken that crown from the US in the 1990s.
A Chinese rare earths giant is building international alliances worldwide | Mary Hui | February 19, 2021 | QuartzAccording to the company, the Round Top project has over a century’s worth of rare earth supplies.
The US is taking steps towards breaking China’s rare earths monopoly | Mary Hui | February 5, 2021 | QuartzIt includes a more stringent approval process for mining and processing projects, as well as the import and export of rare earths.
China is feeling insecure about its global rare earths dominance | Mary Hui | January 28, 2021 | QuartzQuoting unidentified analysts, it reported that China could restrict the US’s access to rare earths in response to Washington’s latest arms sales to Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own territory.
The first thing to know about rare earths is that they are not actually all that rare.
But Joanna Magnusson was one of the rare earth women who had come out with her husband, twenty years ago.
The Door Through Space | Marion Zimmer BradleyIn 1797 Ekeberg showed that gadolinite contained another rare earth, which was given the name yttria.
The rare earth metals are found in the minerals gadolinite, samarskite, fergusonite, euxenite and cerite.
The first of the rare earth minerals was discovered in 1794 by J. Gadolin and was named gadolinite from its discoverer.
These crude earths, yttria and ceria, have supplied most if not all of the “rare earth” metals.
British Dictionary definitions for rare earth
any oxide of a lanthanide
Also called: rare-earth element another name for lanthanide
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