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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 range of high-tech devices and green technologies. IndustryWeek Forums - Chain Reactions
• The new technique raises the efficiency to 69 per cent, using a solid-state device which stores data on ions in a crystal made of an exotic compound, yttrium orthosilicate. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
• Examples of transition metals include vanadium, chromium, iron, cobalt, manganese, nickel, scandium, yttrium, zirconium, silver, and gold.
• The development project with mine-owner Wings Enterprises Inc. comes as concerns heighten about China's tight grip on production of metals such as yttrium required in hybrid vehicles, wind turbines, flat panel televisions, defense missiles and satellites. Glencore Backs Rare Earths Mining Project
• That light gets funneled into a crystal of a material called neodymium-doped yttrium orthovanadate, which is common to lab lasers. Wired Top Stories
• Zevalin® (Yttrium-90 [(90) Y] ibritumomab tiuxetan) appears to provide effective, long-term anticancer responses for patients with follicular lymphoma whose cancer has progressed following an autologous stem cell transplant. Undefined
• The elements more abundant in Earth's crust seem to have more mentions - iron and oxygen have far more pages than yttrium and scandium.
• A lustrous, blackish - brown rare earth mineral consisting primarily of cerium , erbium , titanium , uranium, and yttrium.
• Exotic materials such as yttrium silver (a metallic compound that manages to be both ductile and strong at the same time) and lithium niobate (which does all manner of weird things to light) are fascinating regardless of whether they might be some sort of real-world equivalents of mithril or the palantirs. The Science of Middle Earth, by Henry Gee. Book review
• Common rare-earth alloys include rare-earth ferrosilicon — with 17%-37% rare earth content — which is used as an additive in steel- and iron-smelting, and magnesium rare earth, which contains 2%-10% of rare-earth elements yttrium and gadolinium and is used in aviation, automotive and defense sectors. China Considers Further Rare-Earth Quotas