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praseodymium

a malleable ductile silvery-white element of the lanthanide series of metals. It occurs principally in monazite and bastnaesite and is used with other rare earths in carbon-arc lights and as a pigment in glass. Symbol: Pr; atomic no.: 59; atomic wt.: 140.90765; valency: 3; relative density: 6.773; melting pt.: 931°C; boiling pt.: 3520°C
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praseodymium

[‚prā·zē·ō′dim·ē·əm]
(chemistry)
A chemical element, symbol Pr, atomic number 59, atomic weight 140.9077; a metallic element of the rare-earth group.
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Thanks to its novel anisotropic structure and the catalytic activity of praseodymium, this UPr-PS Janus composite particle exhibits great application prospect in the field of oriented catalysis.
It can be seen from the Fig 6 and 7 that both e' and e" decrease with the increase of Praseodymium concentration.
The holes react with [H.sub.2]O or O[H.sup.-] to form hydroxyl radicals (*OH) and the electronhole separation process is improved because BSO sample transfers photoelectrons to Pr when praseodymium appears on BSO surface [22, 30].
praseodymium, and neodymium are more abundant and concentrated and
Many hybrid electric vehicles use nickel metal hydride batteries, which include rare earth elements--lanthanum, neodymium, praseodymium, and cerium--as well as non-rare earth elements--cobalt, nickel, manganese, and aluminum.
For the determination of total trace and rare earth elements like vanadium (V), rubidium (Rb), strontium (Sr), yttrium (Y), zirconium (Zr), niobium (Nb), tin (Sn), antimony (Sb), cesium (Cs), barium (Ba), lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr), and neodymium (Nd); the powdered sediment samples were hard-pressed at 60-65 mPa to prepare bead and were analyzed by X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy, employing a Rigaku RIX 1000 (Tokyo, Japan) XRF.
Molycorp is expected to provide Sumitomo with approximately 2,500 metric tons per year of cerium- and lanthanum-based products and 250 metric tons of didymium oxide (a combination of neodymium and praseodymium) per year from its current production facility at Mountain Pass, California.
First discovered in 1787, these metals - including yttrium, praseodymium, neodymium, europium, and gadolinium - are now used in color TVs, lasers, high-tech magnets, batteries, lenses, and critical defense applications.
The mixture contained 35.3% lanthanum oxide, 25.2% cerium oxide, 10.2% praseodymium oxide and 29.3% of several other contaminating minerals which were present in trace amounts.
In June 2009, it was reported that there is struggle between the United States, China and Japan over "rare earths," which include neodymium, samarium, and praseodymium, as well as ceramic superconductors and alternatives to those materials in the experimental stage.
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