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lanthanide
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lan·tha·nide (lnth-nd)
n.
Any of the chemically related elements with atomic numbers 57 through 71. Also called rare earth, rare-earth element.


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The emphasis of this announcement is on the ions, complexes, and organometallic compounds of the transition metals known as lanthanides and actinides, post-transition metals, and metalloid elements.
Experiments at low energy, below 8 keV, at the K edges of the early transition metals and the L edges of early lanthanides have been more difficult to perform, because of absorption by the Be windows in the beam line and by the samples themselves.
The last major change to the table was in the 1940s, when Nobel Laureate Glenn Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley created a separate group for the lanthanides and actinides--the rare earth and radioactive elements.
 
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