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The Rare Earth Elements—A Special Group of Metals Read chapter Read first chapter

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5. Applications of the Rare Earths

Author : J. H. L. Voncken

Published in: The Rare Earth Elements

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Abstract

This chapter gives an overview of the most important applications of the rare earth elements. The number applications discussed is large, but not exhaustive. Among those treated are catalysts, metal alloys, HT-superconductors, batteries, phosphors, glass, glass-polishing agents, permanent magnets, pigments, nuclear-control rods, photographic filters, lasers, and the scintillation crystals used in PET-scanners. The permanent magnets have themselves a large number of different applications, which are listed in this chapter.

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Footnotes
1
Chemical mechanical polishing/planarization is a process of smoothing surfaces with the combination of chemical and mechanical forces. It can be thought of as a hybrid of chemical etching and free abrasive polishing.
 
2
CAS: Chemical Abstracts Service is a division of the American Chemical Society. Entering the CAS registry number in Google, e.g., leads directly to the specific compound.
 
3
Magnetic coercivity: measure of the potential of a ferromagnetic material to resist an external magnetic field without becoming demagnetized.
 
4
The Curie point is the temperature at which the permanent magnetism of a material changes to paramagnetism, which is only present in a magnetic field.
 
5
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique using strong magnetic fields, but no ionizing radiation. It is widely used for imaging soft human tissues.
 
6
Gadopentetic acid is a trade name of a complex of gadolinium with DTPA—diethylenetriaminepentacetate (Sherry et al. 2009).
 
7
A cermet is a composite material composed of ceramic (cer) and metallic (met) materials.
 
8
Yttrium-iron garnet: Y3Fe5O12.
 
9
YLF: LaYF4.
 
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Metadata
Title
Applications of the Rare Earths
Author
J. H. L. Voncken
Copyright Year
2016
Book
The Rare Earth Elements

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-26807-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-26809-5

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26809-5_5