Rare Earths, Real Insight - Ep 57: Julie Klinger
Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change
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How to Separate Rare Earth Elements
The process of extracting one of these rare earths and turning it into something that can be used in a as a magnet or or in an electrical component. So, these rare earth elements are you know chemically similar they're actually very difficult to separate. And through much of the 20th century this was the challenge with respect to rare earth elements which is why applications for rare earths didn't really explode until the latter quarter of the20th century.
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