Lanthanide what is lanthanide history of lanthanide

        Lanthanide

Lanthanides were first discovered in 1787 from a unusual black mineral found in ytterby , Sweden. This mineral now known as Gadolinite, and was separated later in various lanthanide element . 

  In 1795 , professor Gadolin obtained an impure from of yttrium oxide from the mineral . In 1803, Berzelius and Klaproth separated the cerium compound . Latter , Mosely using  X - ray spectra of the element showed that there were 14 element between Lanthanum and Hafnium . The rest of the element were latter separated from the same mineral , Gadolinite .

   These elements were first classified as rare earth due to the fact that obtained by reasonable rare minerals . But , this is misleading , since the lanthanide elements have a practically unlimited abundance .
So, the term , Lanthanides was adopted , originating from the first element of the series , Lanthanum .

   The Lanthanides consist of the element in the f - block of period six in the periodic table . These metals are considered as transition metals and have properties that set them apart from the rest of the element.

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