rare earth element

English

Alternative forms

• rare-earth element

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

• Afrikaans: seldsameaardmetaal
• Chinese:

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

• Finnish: harvinainen maametalli (fi)
• French: terre rare (fr) f
• German: Seltenerdmetall n, Metall der Seltenen Erden n
• Hungarian: ritkaföldfém (hu) sg
• Italian: terra rara f
• Japanese: 希土類元素 (きどるいげんそ, kidorui genso)
• Kazakh: сирекжер элемент (sirekjer élement)
• Korean: 희토류 원소(稀土類元素) (ko) (huitoryu wonso)
• Polish: metal ziem rzadkich m
• Russian: редкоземе́льные элеме́нты m pl (redkozemélʹnyje eleménty), ре́дкие зе́мли f pl (rédkije zémli)
• Spanish: tierras raras f pl, elemento terrestre insólito m
• Vietnamese: đất hiếm, các nguyên tố đất hiếm

See also

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