00:00Rare Earths are 17 chemical elements that are key components in today's high-tech devices.
00:12The bedrock of electrical manufacturing, they're used to make a range of products,
00:16smartphones and cameras, flat-screen televisions, computers and weapons.
00:21They have enormous strategic importance. The best known is neodymium.
00:27It's used to make high-powered magnets found in electric cars and in wind turbine generators.
00:36Turbium is a phosphorescent which makes LED lights shine brighter.
00:41Lanthanum is used in the manufacture of powerful fibre optics.
00:46Cerium is used in high-powered batteries and in compact fluorescent lights.
00:57In a warm-eyed environment, an example is used to WHILE-ABEE-왕,
01:01and it's used to make a signal.
01:03It's used to make a signal.
01:06It's used to make a signal that it's used to make a signal in the higher-tech devices.
01:08It's used to make a signal.
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