Certain newspapers need to catch up on the technical details:
contain as much gold, platinum and rare earth metals – such as rhodium
Rhodium isn’t a rare earth metal. It’s a platinum group metal.
This space mining stuff
April 25th, 2012 · 3 Comments
Tags: Metals
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1 Bob // Apr 25, 2012 at 8:42 am
Probably because if you point a journalist to a periodic table they will probably still giggle at the word ‘period’ in the name…
2 johnny bonk // Apr 25, 2012 at 9:58 am
more on exotic metals please
3 David Gillies // Apr 25, 2012 at 9:15 pm
There was some mong in the comments in the Torygraph saying that yttrium wasn’t a rare earth; that rare earths comprised lanthanides and actinides. I pointed out that uranium is not a rare earth and to stop being a prat.
(conventionally, rare earths = lanthanides + Y + Sc. Seventeen elements in all.)
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