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n. - A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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  • China supplies at least 95% of the world's rare earths -- 17 chemical elements with hard-to-pronounce names such as praseodymium and yttrium -- essential for a wide...
  • Didymium is a combination of two rare-earth elements, praseodymium and neodymium.
  • The SRB has also been accumulating aluminium, zinc, nickel, and rarer metals such as titanium, indium (thin-film technology), rhodium (catalytic converters) and...
  • So far, the presence has been demonstrated of about one hundred bodies which are the direct or indirect products of the processes of the splitting of matter; these products are...
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