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RARE METALS [1 record]

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Record 1 1999-10-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metals Mining
  • Chemistry
DEF

A loose term for less common and more expensive metallic elements. Included are the alkaline-earth metals barium, strontium, and beryllium, also bismuth, cadmium, cobalt, columbium (niobium), gallium, germanium, hafnium, indium, lithium, molybdenum, rhenium, selenium, tantalum, tellurium, thallium, thorium, titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, and zirconium.

Key term(s)
  • rare metal

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines métalliques
  • Chimie
Key term(s)
  • métal rare

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Minas metálicas
  • Química
Key term(s)
  • metal raro
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