lanthanide
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
lanthanide (plural lanthanides)
- (chemistry) Any of the 14 rare earth elements from cerium (or from lanthanum) to lutetium in the periodic table; because their outermost orbitals are empty, they have very similar chemistry; below them are the actinides.
- lanthanate (obsolete)
- lanthanoid (including lanthanum)
- lanthanon (proposed to avoid confusion with the usual meaning in chemistry of -ide)
- rare-earth element
- Italian: lantanide
- Russian: лантано́ид
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