rare earth element

English

Noun

rare earth element (plural rare earth elements)

1. (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.

Translations

type of metal

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 稀土金屬／稀土金属 (zh) (xītǔ jīnshǔ), 稀土金属 (zh) (xītǔ jīnshǔ), 稀土元素 (zh) (xītǔ yuánsù)

• Finnish: harvinainen maametalli
• French: terre rare (fr) f
• German: Metalle der Seltenen Erden n pl, Seltenerdmetalle n pl
• Japanese: 希土類元素 (きどるいげんそ, kidorui genso)
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• Korean: 희토류 원소 (ko) (huitoryu wonso) (稀土類元素)
• Polish: metal ziem rzadkich m
• Russian: редкоземе́льные элеме́нты m pl (redkozemélʹnyje eleménty), ре́дкие зе́мли f pl (rédkije zémli)
• Spanish: tierras raras f pl
• Vietnamese: đất hiếm, các nguyên tố đất hiếm

See also

• REE
• rare earth
• rare earth metal
• rare earth mineral