Two hundred years of rare earths, 1787--1987

Technical Report · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6893525

Gschneidner, Jr, K A; Capellen, J ^[1]

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The Rare-earth Information Center celebrated the 200th anniversary of the discovery of ytterbite by inviting its readers to write stories on what the readers thought were some of the important highlights of the first 200 years of rare earths. Four of these stories were published, in a shortened version, in one of the four quarterly issues of the /ital RIC News/. All of the stories submitted, including the four published, were to be part of a booklet published by RIC and to be distributed to any one requesting it. RIC decided to include a ''letter to the editor'' and the editor's response concerning the year Arrhenius made his initial discovery. Also, we have included a 1984 article which was written on the occasion of a special issue commemorating the 100th volume of the /ital Journal of the Less-Common Metals/. In this paper, K.A. Gschneidner Jr., reviews the history and current events of rare earth metallurgy and makes some observations concerning its future /endash/ an appropriate concluding paper in this special booklet. In July of 1987 North-Holland Physics Publishing offered to typeset, print and publish these articles as a joint RIC/endash/North-Holland publication. And this is the result. 52 refs., 2 figs., 3 tabs.

• Research Organization: Iowa State Univ. of Science and Technology, Ames (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-82
• OSTI ID: 6893525
• Report Number(s): IS-RIC-10; ON: DE89003842
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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