How to Use rare earth in a Sentence

rare earth

noun
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  • 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
  • That sent the price of neodymium and other rare earths soaring.
    — Charles Riley, CNN, 5 June 2019
  • Will tariffs help the US build its rare earth supply chain?
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Would talk to you for an hour about rare earth minerals, sir.
    — CBS News, 2 June 2024
  • The truth, however, is that rare earths are a paper tiger.
    — Washington Post, 31 May 2019
  • 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
  • China has used its control of rare earths to try to get its way before.
    — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 11 July 2018
  • Return to top Are there new ideas in processing of rare earth ore?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Exports of rare earths fell in terms of value, but rose in volume, the data showed.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 12 July 2024
  • 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
  • Greenland is rich in oil and rare Earth minerals and is home to a U.S. military base.
    — Morten Buttler, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • China accounts for more than 70% of global output of rare earths.
    — Andrew Mayeda, latimes.com, 4 June 2019
  • One person said the standards should focus on the dangers of rare earth minerals.
    — Katie Worth, Scientific American, 20 June 2022
  • The batteries use less rare earth metals than most in use today, the company said.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena For Cnn Business, CNN, 6 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Further, 86% of the items removed at the SMA’s request were for rare earths and critical minerals.
    — WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
  • 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
  • Long said the United States is getting quickly squeezed out of the market for rare earth materials.
    — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Some experts have suggested there should be more of a focus on recycling rare earth elements rather than mining.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
  • If conductors were rare earths, Finland would control the global economy.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2024

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