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oapen-20.500.12657-307642024-03-25T09:51:41Z Rare Earth Frontiers Klinger, Julie Michelle Anthropology Geography Resources Anthropology Etnography Geology China Brazil Moon Baotou Bayan Obo Mining District Rare-earth element thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography::RGCM Economic geography Owing to their unique magnetic, phosphorescent, and catalytic properties, rare earths are the elements that make possible teverything from the miniaturization of electronics, to the enabling of green energy and medical technologies, to supporting essential telecommunications and defense systems. An iPhone uses eight rare earths for everything from its colored screen, to its speakers, to the miniaturization of the phone’s circuitry. On the periodic table rare earth elements comprise a set of seventeen chemical elements (the fifteen lanthanides plus scandium and yttrium). There would be no Pokémon Go without rare earths. Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography. Klinger looks historically and geographically at the ways rare earth elements in three discrete but representative and contested sites are given meaning. 2018-01-24 23:55 2017-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-10 03:00:34 2020-04-01T13:12:28Z 2020-04-01T13:12:28Z 2018-01-15 book 642738 OCN: 1028759642 9781501714610;9781501714603 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30764 eng application/pdf n/a 642738.pdf Cornell University Press 101569 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781501714610;9781501714603 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Ithaca, NY 101569 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Owing to their unique magnetic, phosphorescent, and catalytic properties, rare earths are the elements that make possible teverything from the miniaturization of electronics, to the enabling of green energy and medical technologies, to supporting essential telecommunications and defense systems. An iPhone uses eight rare earths for everything from its colored screen, to its speakers, to the miniaturization of the phone’s circuitry. On the periodic table rare earth elements comprise a set of seventeen chemical elements (the fifteen lanthanides plus scandium and yttrium). There would be no Pokémon Go without rare earths. Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography. Klinger looks historically and geographically at the ways rare earth elements in three discrete but representative and contested sites are given meaning.
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