The rare-earth elements (REE), also called rare-earth metals, or rare earths, are a set of 17 nearly indistinguishable lustrous silvery-white soft heavy metals.

"Rare-earth elements (REE) are necessary components of more than 200 products across a wide range of applications, especially high-tech consumer products, such as cellular telephones, …

Oct 10, 2025 · Rare-earth element, any member of the group of chemical elements consisting of three elements in Group 3 (scandium [Sc], yttrium [Y], and lanthanum [La]) and the first …

Rare Earth Elements (REE) are becoming increasingly important in electronic devices used in the defense, alternative energy, and communications industries. Minable deposits of REEs are …

13 hours ago · In the rare earth elements, some of the valence electrons stay close to the atomic nucleus and tend not to interact with the atoms’ outside environment, and so they rarely form …

6 days ago · Rare earth elements (REEs) are a group of 17 chemically similar metallic elements. This group consists of the fifteen lanthanides (lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, …

Aug 1, 2025 · Rare earth minerals are naturally occurring substances that contain one or more of the 17 rare earth elements (REEs). Despite their name, most rare earths are relatively …

Rare earth elements (REEs)—a subset of critical minerals and materials (Figure 1)—are essential materials in a broad range of technologies significant to national security, energy systems, …

1 day ago · Seventeen elements are classified as Rare Earth Elements (REEs), a group of chemically similar metals critical for many advanced technologies. They include the 15 …

Apr 15, 2025 · Rare earth elements are critical to many industries—used in electric motors, medical imaging and diagnostics, oil and gas refining, and computer and phone screens.