Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Prospecting
The Periodic Table of the Rare Earths
Earths ? Rare?
Analysis by Johannes Gadolin
Separation - The Hard Way
Discovery Timeline
Auer von Welsbach's Metal
Monazite and Bastnaesite
Mining - Mountain Pass
The Sizes of the 3+ lons
The Manhattan Project
Better separations 2
The First Kilo of Gadolinium oxide
Spectra of the lanthanides
William Crookes
Glassblowing
Cutting out the glare
The crucial orbitals
Electronic States of the Lanthanides
Fibre optics
Rare Earth magnets
The tetravalence of cerium
Why are the lanthanides trivalent?
Uses of Trivalent Complexes
Organometallic Ce(IV) species
Synchrotrons (what else?)
Rare Earth Price
Taught by
The Royal Institution