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Stories about: rare earth elements

The Need for More Rare Earth Elements Increases Most of the world's complex equipment, including the vast majority of electronics, are constructed using rare Earth elements (REE), a collection of chemicals that is hard to come by. Now that China has a monopoly on harvesting and selling REE, the other countries are left to fend for themselves. This is very... 11 October 2011 09:55 GMT The Moon Offers Strategic Resources An important debate going on in the United States right now is whether the country should consider the Moon as being a source of strategic materials, such as for example rare-Earth metals (REM).These are chemical elements that are very hard to come by in nature, hence the name. At this point, China controls this mark... 4 October 2010 10:51 GMT Lack of Rare Chemicals Could Stifle Future Innovation Most of the advancements in the Information Age were ushered forth by the fact that the Silicon Valley learned to use the relatively common chemical silicon in processors, chips and other electronic applications. This has enabled a fast history of progress over the last few decades, but now innovation is becoming inc... 15 February 2010 02:20 GMT