Rare earth metals are used extensively in clean energy technologies. But how safe are they?

Rare earth metals are used extensively in clean energy technologies. But how safe are they?


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Also called rare earth metals, they comprise seventeen chemical elements — 15 lanthanides (anthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium,


dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, and lutetium), scandium and yttrium.