Terra Rara - The Strange Story of Some Political Elements

Terra Rara - The Strange Story of Some Political Elements

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 Prospecting
  3. 3 The Periodic Table of the Rare Earths
  4. 4 Earths ? Rare?
  5. 5 Analysis by Johannes Gadolin
  6. 6 Separation - The Hard Way
  7. 7 Discovery Timeline
  8. 8 Auer von Welsbach's Metal
  9. 9 Monazite and Bastnaesite
  10. 10 Mining - Mountain Pass
  11. 11 The Sizes of the 3+ lons
  12. 12 The Manhattan Project
  13. 13 Better separations 2
  14. 14 The First Kilo of Gadolinium oxide
  15. 15 Spectra of the lanthanides
  16. 16 William Crookes
  17. 17 Glassblowing
  18. 18 Cutting out the glare
  19. 19 The crucial orbitals
  20. 20 Electronic States of the Lanthanides
  21. 21 Fibre optics
  22. 22 Rare Earth magnets
  23. 23 The tetravalence of cerium
  24. 24 Why are the lanthanides trivalent?
  25. 25 Uses of Trivalent Complexes
  26. 26 Organometallic Ce(IV) species
  27. 27 Synchrotrons (what else?)
  28. 28 Rare Earth Price

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