How to Use rare earth element in a Sentence

rare earth element

noun

• Trump himself has employed elements of the law to boost production of rare earth elements, small drones and sensors to detect submarines, among other products.
  — Sarah Babbage, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2020
• These rare earth elements come from swirls of dust deposited during the winter storms, so the elements’ prevalence is a reliable gauge of storm intensity.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 6 June 2018
• That puts uranium on the same footing with minerals like cobalt and lithium, used in the electronics industry, and rare earth elements like titanium and tin.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 17 Mar. 2020
• Both of these rare earth elements occur naturally in very small quantities.
  — Christopher R. Moore, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2019
• The Round Top mine site has 15 of the 17 rare earth elements, including all five needed to make magnets as well as several minerals on the U.S. government's critical minerals list, published last year.
  — Naomi Xu Elegant, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2019
• One possible arena for retaliation, in the minds of analysts: rare earth elements.
  — Klint Finley, WIRED, 17 June 2019
• Some analysts have asked whether there are similarly irreplaceable assets on the Chinese side – such as rare earth elements exported to the U.S. – to be used as reciprocal leverage.
  — Ling Chen, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
• Others, like rare earth elements, are in comparatively short supply.
  — Andrew McAfee, WIRED, 29 June 2019
• Rare earth minerals contain rare earth elements (located here on the periodic table) that are used in high-tech devices like smartphones, missile systems, radar devices and hybrid vehicles.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 16 Apr. 2018
• These seabed parcels are split between 22 countries and companies hoping to extract mineral riches, including cobalt, copper, nickel and rare earth elements used in manufacturing cell phones, batteries and electric cars.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2020
• President Donald Trump signed an executive order in 2017 instructing federal agencies to ensure the availability of critical minerals such as rare earth elements.
  — Klint Finley, WIRED, 17 June 2019
• The funding would include $15 billion for demonstration projects in nascent clean energy technology, including advanced nuclear, floating offshore wind, biofuels, and rare earth element production.
  — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 31 Mar. 2021
• Joshua Zide, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Delaware, studies rare earth elements, particularly terbium, which is part of the chemical element combination for Saini’s discovery.
  — Kristen A. Schmitt, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2017

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