China accounts for 95 percent of global production and about 60 percent of consumption of rare metals, including dysprosium, terbium, thulium, lutetium and yttrium, according to the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Jiabao: China's Investment Climate Stable] Reference
The final pair of biologicals, significant moneymakers, were a recreational mindbender called Red Skeezix and a marine microorganism able to concentrate the rare element lutetium from juvenile water emitted by abyssal thermal vents. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
Uncertainties are only slightly higher on rhenium (5\%), lutetium (3\%), and beryllium. From Wordnik.com. [Reasons to Believe -] Reference
Some of the more common ones include samarium-neodymium, rhenium-osmium, and lutetium-hafnium. From Wordnik.com. [Reasons to Believe -] Reference
Heavy Rare Earth Oxides (HREO) refers to the elements europium to lutetium, plus yttrium, expressed as oxides. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
HREO refers to the ratio of heavy rare earths (europium through to lutetium, plus yttrium, expressed as oxides) to TREO. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) promotes the development and maintenance of the corpus lutetium and the production of progesterone. From Wordnik.com. [MLB Rumors at MLBnewsonline.com] Reference
Lanthanum tends to replace gadolinium atoms on the material's surface, but lutetium prefers to replace gadolinium in its central layer. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Online News] Reference
Your fact of the day is that of around 2,200 kg of lutetium used globally a year, 2,000 kg is used at one factory in Texas to make those crystals. From Wordnik.com. [The Register] Reference
Rare earth elements are a collection of 17 chemical elements, from lanthanum to lutetium, that have unique chemical properties and characterisitics. From Wordnik.com. [StreetInsider.com News Articles] Reference
Instead of elements found in phosphates, Lapen's group used lutetium and hafnium, elements that are mostly found in more change-resistant components of the rock. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Reference
The rare earths start at lanthanum, Element 57, and run to lutetium, Element 71, and if you look them over, there's a good chance you won't recognize any of them. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
The uncertainty levels of these half-lives are very small-only about plus or minus 2 percent for all except for rhenium (5\%), lutetium (3\%), and beryllium (3\%). From Wordnik.com. [Reasons to Believe -] Reference
Lanthanum-doped material had virtually unchanged magnetic properties, but the lutetium-infused material required a stronger external magnetic field to align its atoms. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Online News] Reference
A draft report prepared by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology proposes a ban on foreign shipments of terbium, dysprosium, yttrium, thulium, and lutetium. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
A draft report by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has called for a total ban on foreign shipments of terbium, dysprosium, yttrium, thulium, and lutetium. From Wordnik.com. [Slugger O'Toole] Reference
In a similar way, lutetium decays to the element hafnium, and the relative abundances of these elements in zircon provide us information about the earlier origin of the rock host Jeff. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Technical Report: "Overall leach extraction of heavy rare earths (terbium, dysprosium, erbium, holmium, thulium, ytterbium and lutetium) plus yttrium, in all leach tests averaged 64%.". From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
China accounts for 95 percent of global production and about 60 percent of consumption of rare earths, which include dysprosium, terbium, thulium, lutetium and yttrium, according to the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [daytondailynews.com - News] Reference
And China, which mines most of the world's rare earth metals, is weighing a total ban on exports of terbium, dysprosium, yttrium, thulium, and lutetium - and may restrict foreign sales of others. From Wordnik.com. [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference
China accounts for 95 per cent of global production and about 60 per cent of consumption of rare metals, including dysprosium, terbium, thulium, lutetium and yttrium, according to the US Geological Survey. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
With samples provided by the NASA Antarctic meteorite curator and the meteorite working group, the researchers used a relatively new method that has never been applied to this stone - lutetium-hafnium isotope analysis. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Rare earth elements (REE), which include minerals such as dysprosium, terbium, thulium, lutetium and yttrium, are widely used and indispensable in the fields of electronics, aviation, atomic energy, and mechanical manufacturing. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
It should be noted that high demand for the less available heavy rare earth elements, europium through lutetium plus yttrium ( "HREE"), (particularly dysprosium europium, and terbium) is expected to exert greater pressure on prices for these specific elements. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is proposing a total ban on exports of terbium, dysprosium, yttrium, thulium, and lutetium and a restriction on neodymium, europium, cerium, and lanthanum to a total of 35,000 tons a year, which is far below global needs. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The lanthanides include everything from lanthanum (La) to lutetium (Lu) and also includes yttrium (. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology draft rare earths plan for 2009 to 2015 proposes an immediate ban on the export of dysprosium, terbium, thulium, lutetium and yttrium, the 'heavy' REE and a restriction on the exports of all the other, light, rare earth metals to a level well below that of Japan's 2008 demand alone. ". From Wordnik.com. [NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories] Reference
(1) Total Rare Earth Oxides (TREO) refers to the elements lanthanum to lutetium, plus yttrium, expressed as oxides. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium. From Wordnik.com. [Qulog 2.0] Reference
(1) TREO refers to total rare earth oxides (the sum of all rare earth elements from lanthanum to lutetium, plus yttrium, expressed as oxides. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
The other lanthanoids are lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium and lutetium. From Wordnik.com. [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference
Rare earth elements are lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, and lutetium. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
REE's consist of 16 elements, being the 15 lanthanide-series elements lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, and lutetium, plus the metal yttrium. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]
Some of the metals such as terbium, dysprosium, thulium, and lutetium, europium, cerium, and lanthanum are more important that others, but crudely speaking they are the salt of life for the high-tech revolution -- sprinkled in iPads, Blackberries, plasma TVs, water filters, or lasers. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
There are many different variations of the radiometric dating technique such as radiocarbon, argon-argon, iodine-xenon, lanthanum-barium, lead-lead, lutetium-hafnium, neon-neon, potassium-argon, rhenium-osmium, rubidium-strontium, samarium-neodymium, uranium-lead, uranium-lead-helium, uranium-thorium, and uranium-uranium, of which every single one will date objects '' 'far older than 10,000 years' ''. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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