Do you know your lanthanides/rare earth elements?
Across
- 3. named after the mythological northern land of Thule
- 5. named after a Russian mine official (hint: firstname - Vasili)
- 8. used in computer hard drives, and in your headsets
- 10. rare earth mineral that has the elements thorium and uranium
- 13. used as an MRI contrast agent (dye)
- 18. named after the old name of Paris
- 19. short for zirconium silicate; has trace amounts of rare earth metals
- 20. lightest rare earth element; named after Scandinavia
- 21. a vanadate mineral
- 23. one of the metals that make terfenol-D; from the greek word meaning "hard to get at"
- 24. a group of carbonate minerals
Down
- 1. named after Stockholm, native city to one of it's discoverers
- 2. a rare earth phosphate mineral
- 4. named after the continent of Europe
- 6. also named after the village of Ytterby, Sweden
- 7. named after the greek phrase to be hidden
- 9. named after a small planet and Roman goddess of agriculture
- 11. named after a Titan who brought fire to mortals (mythology)
- 12. another name for the mineral ytterbite
- 14. mineral named from the Greek "sphenos"
- 15. one of the 4 rare earth elements named after Ytterby, Sweden
- 16. a rare earth deposit that has fluorine in it
- 17. one of the greek words (pradios) that makes the name means leek-green
- 22. also named after Ytterby, Sweden; used to make terfenol-D as well
- 25. currently the country with the largest source of rare earths