Lanthanide

15 elements

The first of the lanthanide series. Used in camera and telescope lenses for high...

The most abundant rare earth element. Used in catalytic converters to reduce emi...

Used in magnets for hybrid car motors and wind turbine generators. Praseodymium ...

Neodymium magnets are the strongest permanent magnets ever made. Essential for w...

Used as MRI contrast agent to highlight blood vessels and tumors. Has the highes...

The only radioactive lanthanide with no stable isotopes. Barely half a kilogram ...

Named after Vasily Samarsky-Bykhovets, the first element named for a person. Sam...

Named after Europe, just as americium would later honor the Americas. The most r...

One of four elements named after Ytterby, a single quarry village in Sweden. Ter...

From the Greek dysprositos, meaning hard to get at, because it took decades to i...

Has the highest magnetic strength of any element, so it concentrates magnetic fi...

Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers boost the light signals in the undersea cables tha...

The rarest of the stable rare earths, named after Thule, the mythical farthest n...

The fourth and final element named after the Swedish village of Ytterby. Ytterbi...

The last and hardest lanthanide, named after Lutetia, the Roman name for Paris, ...