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1994 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Rare Earth Minerals & Metals
Author : Phillip Crowson
Published in: Minerals Handbook 1994–95
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The rare earth elements are the group of 15 chemically similar elements with atomic numbers between 57 and 71 inclusive: lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium (together making up the light’ or ‘cerium’ subgroup), gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium and lutetium (which together with yttrium, not itself a rare earth element but invariably associated with them in nature, make up the ‘heavy’ or ‘yttrium’ subgroup).