rare earth element
Noun
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Noun
rare earth element
- (chemistry) Any of a group of seventeen soft, lustrous, sometimes magnetic metals that form trivalent salts; they include the lanthanides plus yttrium, scandium, thorium and sometimes zirconium.
- French: terre rare
- German: Metalle der Seltenen Erden, Seltenerdmetalle
- Russian: редкоземе́льные элеме́нты
- Spanish: tierras raras
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