Mastery of rare-earth elements vital to America's security

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 07:14 in Physics & Chemistry

Karl A. Gschneidner Jr., a senior metallurgist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, today cautioned members of a Congressional panel that 'rare-earth research in the USA on mineral extraction, rare-earth separation, processing of the oxides into metallic alloys and other useful forms, substitution, and recycling is virtually zero'...

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