Sentences with phrase «rare earth elements at»

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(Kitco News)- The story of Rare Earth Elements (REE) is at the center of a sad and dirty chapter of the metals industry as it continues to see weak prices despite strong demand.

The principles of reduce, replace and recycle must be applied at every stage to ensure we utilise rare earth elements efficiently, substitute more common materials where possible and design products to be dismantled and recycled.

At the turn of the year the Chinese government announced that it was drastically reducing exports of the rare earth elements.

At the same time, Hadjipanayis is researching whether more widely available rare earths could serve as substitutes or whether powerful magnets could be made that don't employ any rare earth elements, such as iron cobalt alloys.

«Because the attractive interaction between the rare - earth element and protons causes the proton trapping, introducing another defect having positive charges — that is to say, oxygen vacancy — appears to liberate the trapped protons,» said Hitoshi Takamura who led the research at Tohoku University.

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.

In an effort to help develop a sustainable domestic supply of rare earth elements and lessen the United States» dependence on China for materials that are vital to the production of electronics, wind turbines, and many other technologies, two researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a method of extracting rare earths from the drive units and motors of discarded electric and hybrid cars.

Researchers at Germany's Technical University of Darmstadt shone a laser onto a tiny opaque crystal studded with electrically charged atoms of praseodymium, a rare earth element.

Since silica is one of the most abundant elements in Earth's crust, how is it that rubies managed to avoid it but at the same time connect with the exceedingly rare chromium?

Meanwhile, researchers at the University of Tokyo reported at a conference in Tokyo in June that they have discovered seafloor sediments in Japanese waters that contain an estimated 6.8 million tonnes of rare - earth elements.

«The technological applications of rare earth elements are at an all - time high, and that just makes the work that all of you do all much more important.»

Observations Regarding Past and Potential Future Mining and Its Impacts At Bokan Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska: Potential Rare Earth Element Mining and Uranium Mine Remediation.

A new rare - earth magnet recycling process developed by researchers at the Critical Materials Institute (CMI) dissolves magnets in an acid - free solution and recovers high purity rare earth elements.

And everyone knows that lawrencium, represented here by Leisure Suit Larry, is a rare - earth element that belongs at the extreme bottom right of the table.

Researchers at state universities in the Southeast are closing in on whether one of the region's biggest liabilities — coal mine waste — might become a valuable asset by supplying rare earth elements needed for clean energy and other applications.