Great post, but in my opinion lithium is not a rare earth.
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@Finanzgeograph If anything, I may refer to myself as a chemist superficially, but if you have a different take on it as a geographer, I'd really appreciate it. 😄
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@Hannes_SK According to the German Raw Materials Agency, the following elements are counted as rare earths: cerium, prase- odymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium including the chemically similar element yttrium.
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I'll second that :) A little fun fact: rare earths are only called "rare" because they were rarely found in minerals at the time of their discovery. Some of these metals are even more common in the earth's crust than copper or lead.
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•@Finanzgeograph I would take that phrase of "rare" earths out of my post if you would be okay with that?! 😅 Thank me but really very much for the clarification. Learned something new again. 😁
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Come on, you don't mean to tell me that you never teased the teacher with neodymium in your physics lessons on magnetism?! 😂
Come on, you don't mean to tell me that you never teased the teacher with neodymium in your physics lessons on magnetism?! 😂
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