Sentences with phrase «called rare earth»

But it's also home to 93 percent of global production of so - called rare earth elements — including two metals essential for a wide array of green technologies, from hybrid cars to wind turbines.

A massive wind turbine — capable of turning the breeze into two million watts of power — has 40 - meter - long blades made from fiberglass, towers 90 meters above the ground, weighs hundreds of metric tons, and fundamentally relies on roughly 300 kilograms of a soft, silvery metal known as neodymium — a so - called rare earth.

This idea is called the rare Earth hypothesis.

China currently supplies 97 % of the so - called Rare Earths - metal elements which are vital to green technologies like electric cars, fuel cells or wind turbines, not to mention iPhones, plasma screens, and myriads of other consumer goods.

Not exact matches

Researchers who've pored over the data since last year now think the collision also made 1 - 5 Earth masses of a very rare element called europium, according to a recent study in The Astrophysical Journal.

Obviously, Molycorp's management is aware of the strong correlation between its stock price and rare earth prices, and it tries to combat that by marketing a proprietary chemical called SorbX and a range of similar products for water treatment.

The key for such new wave of EVs is a magnet for electric motors developed by the Japanese firm, which halves the use of a rare earth called neodymium and eliminates the use of others called terbium and dysprosium, the company revealed on Tuesday.

And if to this we add the fact that, in the case of any given planet, it calls for a further extremely rare accident to produce the conditions which would endow it with life, we can see what a fantastically small figure, quantitatively speaking, our Earth cuts in the Universe.

Then, China «s exports declined by 70 %, spiking prices up to 40 %, causing alarm among the economies and industries that rely on rare - earth metals and a so - called «rare - earth metals crisis».

The process employs a strong acid and a base to separate the rare earths — the so - called chlor — alkali solvent extraction method — but it still will not produce pure rare earths; rather it will yield oxides of cerium, lanthanum, praseodymium and neodymium.

In a series of papers, Firestone and his colleagues claimed various kinds of evidence for the hypothesis, including deposits of the element iridium (rare on Earth but abundant in meteorites), microscopic diamonds (called nanodiamonds), and magnetic particles in deposits at sites supposedly dated to about 12,800 years ago.

Even if the existence of magnetic monopoles as elementary particles remains a fundamental open question, condensed - matter physicists have managed to reproduce artificial versions of these exotic particles in rare - earth oxide crystals called «spin ices.»

Researchers collected rocks and measured minute isotopic variations in rare earth elements called neodymium and samarium.

Professor Park Je - Geun, Associate Director of the Center for Correlated Electron Systems (CCES), within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), and colleagues have observed, quantified and created a new theoretical model of the coupling of two forms of collective atomic excitation, known as magnons and phonons in crystals of the antiferromagnet manganite (Y, Lu) MnO3, a mineral made of manganese oxide and rare - earth elements called yttrium (Y) and lutetium (Lu).

The newly found titanium suboxide — called Magnéli phases — was once thought rare, found only sparingly on Earth in some meteorites, from a small area of rock formations in western Greenland, and occasionally in moon rocks.

These magnets are a combination of materials including rare - earth metal and so - called transition metals, and are accordingly referred to as RE-TM-B magnets.

Colorful fluorescence is the calling card of another rare - earth element with another odd name: europium.

(Molycorp Minerals — the biggest rare - earth mining operation in the United States — optimistically calls them «the green elements.»)

In a triumph for space geology, a team of scientists said they found a rare meteorite, it's the first of its kind to be found on Earth — a dark and rare type called a D asteroid.

Besides confirming theories about the source of some short - duration gamma - ray bursts and the formation mechanism of many of the heavy elements including platinum, lead, gold, and rare earth elements, the gravitational waves enabled us to get a distance to the galaxy independent of the usual step - by - step procedure called the «distance scale ladder».

During this process they looked for concentrations of a rare Earth metal called cerium in the zircons.

Earth and Venus should have had sufficient inner heat to remelt some of its surface basalt to form a range of igneous rocks called granites or «granitoids,» which are coarse - grained blends of lighter minerals (including quartz, feldspar, and mica that are common in Earth's crust but rarer in the smaller planetsimals).

On the other hand, ebooks (and most tablet - like devices such as Driods and iPads, etc.) have intricate circuitry that requires so - called rare - Earth minerals, many of which are being strip - mined out of rainforests and other fragile ecosystems.

Home to more than 60 endemic plant, animal, and insect species found nowhere else on earth, Catalina's so - called «Interior» is home to rare species, including the Santa Catalina Island fox.

FYI, the use of rare earth elements has very little to do with «green tech», it is a common requirement for everything that is usually called «high tech».

«Sometime in 2011 to 2012, Chinese domestic demand will surpass Chinese domestic production,» says Jack Lifton, an analyst and consultant who specializes in what he calls the «technology metals» and advises mining industry clients developing rare earth projects in North America.