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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction : welcome to the rare earth frontier -- What are rare earth elements? -- Placing China in the world history of discovery, production, and use -- Welcome to the hometown of rare earths : 1980-2010 -- Rude awakenings -- From the heartland to the head of the dog -- Extraglobal extraction. |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Summary |
Owing to their unique magnetic, phosphorescent, and catalytic properties, rare earths are the elements that make possible teverything from the miniaturization of electronics, to the enabling of green energy and medical technologies, to supporting essential telecommunications and defense systems. An iPhone uses eight rare earths for everything from its colored screen, to its speakers, to the miniaturization of the phone?s circuitry. On the periodic table rare earth elements comprise a set of seventeen chemical elements (the fifteen lanthanides plus scandium and yttrium). There would be no Pokémon Go without rare earths. Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography. Klinger looks historically and geographically at the ways rare earth elements in three discrete but representative and contested sites are given meaning. |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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Rare earth metals -- Social aspects.
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Rare earth metals -- Political aspects.
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Rare earth metals -- China -- Inner Mongolia.
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Rare earth metals -- Brazil -- Amazonas.
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Lunar mining.
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Métaux des terres rares -- Aspect social.
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Métaux des terres rares -- Aspect politique.
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Métaux des terres rares -- Chine -- Mongolie-Intérieure.
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Métaux des terres rares -- Brésil -- Amazonas.
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Lune -- Exploitation minière.
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Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning.
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Economic geography.
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Geography.
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Human geography.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Economy.
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Lunar mining
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Rare earth metals
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Brazil -- Amazonas
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China -- Inner Mongolia
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Klinger, Julie Michelle, 1983- Rare earth frontiers. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017 9781501714580 (DLC) 2017012446 |
| ISBN |
9781501714603 (electronic bk.) |
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1501714600 (electronic bk.) |
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9781501714610 (electronic bk.) |
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1501714619 (electronic bk.) |
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9781501714597 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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1501714597 |
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1501714589 |
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9781501714580 |
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AU@ 000059778859 |
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CHNEW 000987456 |
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CHVBK 509472907 |
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DKDLA 820120-katalog:999914078505765 |
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