lanthanides

The materials (including scandium, yttrium and a group of elements called the lanthanides) have specific chemical and physical properties that make them useful in improving the performance of computer hard drives and catalytic converters, mobile phones, hi-tech televisions, sunglasses and lasers.

The rise of rare earth elements Alok Jha 2010

The company owns the richest known deposit of rare earths, also known as lanthanides, in the world at Mount Weld, near Laverton in Western Australia.

The Age News Headlines 2010

The materials including scandium, yttrium and a group of elements called the lanthanides

The Guardian World News Suzanne Goldenberg 2010

It was a geologist for example, who while exploring, stumbled across the remarkable metals that exhibited magnetic and electric properties classified as "rare earths" or "lanthanides".

Lorie Karnath: Technology Changing Exploration's Paradigm Lorie Karnath 2011

The rare earths are 15 elements in the periodic table called lanthanides.

Control these Rare Earths and you control the energy technology and economy of the 21st century « Technology Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009

For our story, only the lanthanides are relevant, so let's focus on those, along with scandium and yttrium.

A Cloud in Every Silver Lining: The New Obstacle to a Green-Tech Revolution 2010

For our story, only the lanthanides are relevant, so let's focus on those, along with scandium and yttrium.

Bill Chameides: A Cloud in Every Silver Lining: The New Obstacle to a Green-Tech Revolution 2010

The two transuranium elements most recently discovered, berkelium and californium, correspond to terbium and dysprosium in the lanthanides.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951 - Presentation Speech 1964

They would all resemble uranium and, by analogy with the lanthanides, would form a series of uranides.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951 - Presentation Speech 1964

Since they are like lanthanum, the first element in the series, they have been given the comprehensive name of lanthanides.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951 - Presentation Speech 1964