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Turkey Discovers 694 million mt of Rare Earth Element Reserves

submitted by shitface9000 to WorldNews 2.9 yearsJul 6, 2022 10:57:19 ago (+11/-0)     (news.metal.com)

https://news.metal.com/newscontent/101881567/Turkey-Discovers-694-million-mt-of-Rare-Earth-Element-Reserves-with-Infrastructure-Construction-Starting-This-Year/



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[ - ] ToNigIsToNog 3 points 2.9 yearsJul 6, 2022 12:22:09 ago (+3/-0)

so war will be declared on turkey soon. wonder what the propaganda reason will be

[ - ] La_Chalupacabra 0 points 2.9 yearsJul 6, 2022 16:06:38 ago (+0/-0)

Looks like it's just gonna be ham for Christmas

[ - ] yesiknow 2 points 2.9 yearsJul 6, 2022 12:50:40 ago (+2/-0)

Because 7 billion digital screens need silicon chips. and those devices must be made of plastic by quota hires in China so they break and aren't worth fixing and have to be repurchased constantly.

Rare earth metals are filthy dirty mining and expensive. They're in wind turbines, cars, and not just in the batteries, but the headlights and every other part they can work that shit in. They're in every single digital screen that shows colour.

How many digital screens are in your house?

[ - ] ToNigIsToNog 2 points 2.9 yearsJul 6, 2022 15:25:42 ago (+2/-0)

DID YOU KNOW THAT : wind turbines are never repaired and don't decompose. Yay green energy!

[ - ] PostWallHelena 0 points 2.9 yearsJul 6, 2022 15:38:52 ago (+0/-0)

I just thought rare earth elements were rare. Seems they are not.

They are basically the lanthanide series with Yttrium and Scandium sometimes thrown in .
Lanthanum: symbol Ln, atomic number 57
Cerium: symbol Ce, atomic number 58
Praseodymium: symbol Pr, atomic number 59
Neodymium: symbol Nd, atomic number 60
Promethium: symbol Pm, atomic number 61
Samarium: symbol Sm, atomic number 62
Europium: symbol Eu, atomic number 63
Gadolinium: symbol Gd, atomic number 64
Terbium: symbol Tb, atomic number 65
Dysprosium: symbol Dy, atomic number 66
Holmium: symbol Ho, atomic number 67
Erbium: symbol Er, atomic number 68
Thulium: symbol Tm, atomic number 69
Ytterbium: symbol Yb, atomic number 70
Lutetium: symbol Lu, atomic number 71

Photophysical Properties of Trivalent Lanthanide Ions —... The transitions of the f-electrons are responsible for the interesting photophysical properties of the lanthanide ions, such as long-lived luminescence and sharp absorption and emission lines.

Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes—When the ligands contain organic chromophores with suitable photophysical properties, highly luminescent lanthanide complexes can be obtained.

Physical properties. — Magnetic and spectroscopic... in Gd3+ all the electrons have parallel spin and this property is important for the use of gadolinium complexes as contrast reagent in MRI scans.

Glass containing holmium oxide and holmium oxide solutions (usually in perchloric acid) have sharp optical absorption peaks in the spectral range 200–900 nm and can be used as a wavelength calibration standard for optical spectrophotometers,[81] and are available commercially.[82]

suitable for use in lasers as it makes the population inversion easy to achieve. The Nd:YAG laser is one that is widely used. Europium-doped yttrium vanadate was the first red phosphor to enable the development of color television screens.[83] Lanthanide ions have notable luminescent properties due to their unique 4f orbitals.

The devices lanthanide elements are used in include superconductors, samarium-cobalt and neodymium-iron-boron high-flux rare-earth magnets, magnesium alloys, electronic polishers, refining catalysts and hybrid car components (primarily batteries and magnets).[87] Lanthanide ions are used as the active ions in luminescent materials used in optoelectronics applications, most notably the Nd:YAG laser. Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers are significant devices in optical-fiber communication systems. Phosphors with lanthanide dopants are also widely used in cathode ray tube technology such as television sets. The earliest color television CRTs had a poor-quality red; europium as a phosphor dopant made good red phosphors possible. Yttrium iron garnet (YIG) spheres can act as tunable microwave resonators.

Lanthanide oxides are mixed with tungsten to improve their high temperature properties for TIG welding, replacing thorium, which was mildly hazardous to work with. Many defense-related products also use lanthanide elements such as night vision goggles and rangefinders. The SPY-1 radar used in some Aegis equipped warships, and the hybrid propulsion system of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers all use rare earth magnets in critical capacities.[88] The price for lanthanum oxide used in fluid catalytic cracking has risen from $5 per kilogram in early 2010 to $140 per kilogram in June 2011.[89]

Most lanthanides are widely used in lasers, and as (co-)dopants in doped-fiber optical amplifiers; for example, in Er-doped fiber amplifiers, which are used as repeaters in the terrestrial and submarine fiber-optic transmission links that carry internet traffic.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer 0 points 2.9 yearsJul 6, 2022 15:42:53 ago (+0/-0)

I just thought rare earth elements were rare. Seems they are not.

Yeah, they really aren't. What makes them "rare" is the terrible mining practices and slave-labor that globohomo mega-corps use to dig them up. That and good monopoly practices govs use to keep the plebs from getting in on it.

[ - ] I_am_baal 0 points 2.9 yearsJul 6, 2022 12:24:48 ago (+0/-0)

Rare earth metals are the new oil. I bet they're going to get a lot of attention from superpowers in the coming years, good and bad.

[ - ] ParnellsUprising 0 points 2.9 yearsJul 6, 2022 19:53:39 ago (+0/-0)*

[ - ] I_am_baal 0 points 2.9 yearsJul 6, 2022 22:41:12 ago (+0/-0)

Indeed, and there's plenty of room for escalation

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 0 points 2.9 yearsJul 6, 2022 11:13:00 ago (+0/-0)

Well, good for Turkey. Fucking goat fuckers.