Publisher's Synopsis
From the 2000 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, this symposium reported on advances in the sciences, emerging technologies, and existing and potential applications of the rare earths. Coverage includes resources, markets, extraction, processing, purification, precipitation, electrolysis, physics and chemistry of magnets, electronic materials, batteries, alloys, films, waste recovery, recycling, storage, remediation, and safety issues, as well as hydro-, electro- and pyrometallurgical processes.