Crossword-Solution: LANTHANUM
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| Lanthanum | n. | A rare element of the group of the earth metals, allied to aluminium. It occurs in certain rare minerals, as cerite, gadolinite, orthite, etc., and was so named from the difficulty of separating it from cerium, didymium, and other rare elements with which it is usually associated. Atomic weight 138.5. Symbol La. |
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| LANTHANIDE series, first of | 1 answer |
| silvery-white metallic element | 8 answers |
| A WHITE SOFT METALLIC ELEMENT THAT TARNISHES READILY | 11 answers |
| metallic chemical element | 20 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Who, then, will be the first to discover a use for indium, germanium, terbium, thulium, lanthanum, neodymium, scandium, samarium and others as unknown to us as tungsten was to our fathers? As evidence of the statement that it does not matter how rare an element may be it will come into common use if it is found to be commonly useful, we may refer to radium.
ALUMINA 314 THORIA 317 ZIRCONIA 317 CERIUM 318 LANTHANUM AND DIDYMIUM 319 YTTRIA 319 BERYLLIA 319 LIME 320 STRONTIA 324 BARYTA 326 MAGNESIA 328 THE ALKALIES 330 SODIUM 334 POTASSIUM 336 LITHIUM 338 CÆSIUM 339 RUBIDIUM 340 AMMONIUM 340 PART III.
Cerium occurs as silicate (together with the oxides of lanthanum, didymium, iron and calcium) in the mineral cerite, which is its chief source.
The separation of lanthanum and didymium in the solution from which the cerium has been precipitated is effected by precipitating them together as oxalates, igniting, and dissolving in dilute nitric acid.
All the rare metals afford coloured compounds: tantalum, niobium, pelopium, vanadium, tellurium, titanium, yttrium, lanthanum, didymium, glucinum, cerium, thorinum, zirconium, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, osmium, indium, thallium, &c.; and it is just possible that some of these may one day scrape acquaintance with the palette.