How to Use lanthanum in a Sentence

lanthanum

noun
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  • Over the next 3 years, Eremets and others boosted the Tc as high as 250 K in hydrides containing the heavy metal lanthanum.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Over the next 3 years, Eremets and others boosted the Tc as high as 250 K in hydrogen-rich compounds containing lanthanum.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The problem is that while demand for praseodymium and neodymium is high there is limited demand for other elements which are mined in conjunction, such as cerium and lanthanum.
    — Tim Treadgold, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Instead of neodymium or dysprosium, the magnet uses less-expensive rare-earth metals lanthanum and cerium.
    — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The lanthanide and actinide series — those two rows floating by themselves, named after their first members, lanthanum and actinium — are isolated like that as a concession to limited space.
    — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2019
  • Inside was a dust speck’s worth of the rare-earth metal lanthanum and a bit of hydrogen gas, which theorists had predicted could morph into a novel compound under the enormous pressure of 2.1 million atmospheres.
    — Bob Henderson, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Ferrocerium is an alloy made from iron, along with cerium, lanthanum, and several other rare-earth minerals.
    — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 2 Dec. 2020
  • The first class includes repeating cagelike structures made from hydrogen atoms, with each cage enclosing an electron-rich metal atom, such as lanthanum or yttrium.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 26 Aug. 2021
  • On a recent visit, Lynas technicians mixed rare earth concentrate, which looks to the untrained eye like unremarkable dirt, into chemical tanks that extract elements like lanthanum and cerium.
    — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 11 July 2018
  • Egyptian glasses tended to have higher levels of lanthanum, zirconium and titanium, while Near Eastern glasses tended to have more chromium.
    — Carolyn Wilke, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The composition of the deposit, however, is such that more than three-quarters of the rare earth elements are the light rare earths cerium and lanthanum, used in oil refining equipment and catalytic converters in internal combustion engine vehicles.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 15 July 2021
  • The iPhone contains a chorus of eight rare earth elements: neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, terbium, gadolinium, europium, lanthanum, and yttrium.
    — Edward Humes, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2016
  • The 17 rare earth metals, some with exotic names like lanthanum and europium, form unusually strong lightweight magnetic materials.
    — Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2010
  • The Russian meteorological agency identified them as isotopes of strontium, two types of barium and lanthanum, but asserted that radiation levels are now normal in cities near the accident, which occurred on Aug. 8 in the country’s north.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The Russian meteorological agency identified them as isotopes of strontium, two types of barium, and lanthanum but asserted that radiation levels are now normal in cities near the accident, which occurred Aug. 8 in the country’s north.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2019

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