New elements have come to fill the vacant spaces in his table, and there is every reason to hope that a like fulflllment awaits the rest of the natural system. Yet the two elements last discovered ...

Cerium is part of the group of rare earth elements (REE), which includes the 15 members of the lanthanides group (lanthanum, praseodymium cerium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, ...

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Rare earth elements are critical to many industries—used in electric motors, medical imaging and diagnostics, oil and gas refining, and computer and phone screens. Deposited in just a few accessible ...

These elements share similar properties such as high density and high conductivity. The 17 elements include 15 lanthanides plus scandium and yttrium (See table below). The main sources of REEs are ...