How to Use rare earth in a Sentence

rare earth

noun
  • China replied with a shot across the bow on rare earths.
    Ben Harburg, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Chile, Vietnam and Malaysia are all home to rare earth projects.
    Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Lithium, battery, and rare earth names have had a rough start to the year.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The moon has small amounts of rare earths compared to our planet.
    Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Will tariffs help the US build its rare earth supply chain?
    Mary Hui, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Shares of Chinese rare earth miners plunged as much as 10%.
    Mary Hui, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Russia is the fourth-largest miner of rare earth metals.
    New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Return to top Are there new ideas in processing of rare earth ore?
    IEEE Spectrum, 7 Dec. 2023
  • In just the past decade, demand for rare earths has skyrocketed.
    Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
  • But the system also sets itself up to work in a world with fewer rare earth magnets.
    Roberto Baldwin, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Two of the three rare earth metals used in catalytic converters are worth more per ounce than gold.
    Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 24 Dec. 2020
  • One person said the standards should focus on the dangers of rare earth minerals.
    Katie Worth, Scientific American, 20 June 2022
  • China cut its rare earths export quota in 2010 amid tensions with the United States.
    Laura He, CNN, 4 July 2023
  • Among Afghanistan’s rich resources are rare earth elements (REEs).
    Frank Holmes, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The company said the rare earth elements could be produced as a byproduct of mining iron ore.
    Kim MacKrael, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The supply of rare earth elements is still controlled by China.
    Moneyshow, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Extracting the raw rare earth ores, such as bastnasite and monazite, is just the upstream part of the supply chain.
    Mary Hui, Quartz, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The area also boasts dozens of mining claims for rare earth elements, now coveted by the clean tech sector.
    Dan Michalski, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • More specialized chips may use what are known as rare earth metals that help achieve high performance.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Some rare earth elements get added to metal alloys to strengthen them.
    Wired, 14 July 2022
  • President Biden pledged to compete with China for control of the rare earth market as part of his plan to achieve clean energy.
    Peter Aitken, Fox News, 27 May 2022
  • Some workers were producing rare earth metals at the old plant, but Sillamäe was hurting.
    Isabelle De Pommereau, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2022
  • That’s because the country is easily the world’s leader in rare earth elements.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Tesla said in March that its next-generation batteries would be free of rare earths.
    Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Each stealth fighter jet needs 30 pounds of rare earth elements, Morgan said, and all of it currently comes from overseas.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Right now those giants really make up the rare earth industry in China.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 Nov. 2021
  • There are platinum group and rare earth metals on the moon, as well as Helium-3, which is a potential fuel for nuclear fusion.
    Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Australian rare earth companies which will receive funding as part of the new policy saw their shares surge.
    Ben Westcott, Bloomberg.com, 15 Mar. 2022
  • New research from the Bank of America shows how quickly the world is depleting Earth’s finite resources, such as rare earth, fresh water, and clean air.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2022
  • In the past, the battery and rare earth recycling industry has relied on two other standard practices, Sauve said.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Feb. 2024

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