Rare Earth Frontiers From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes / Julie Michelle Klinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klinger, Julie Michelle, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Owing to their unique magnetic, phosphorescent, and catalytic properties, rare earths are the elements that make possible everything from the miniaturization of electronics, to the enabling of green energy and medical technologies, to supporting essential telecommunications and defense systems. An iPhone uses eight rare earths for everything from its colored screen, to its speakers, to the miniaturization of the phone's circuitry. On the periodic table rare earth elements comprise a set of seventeen chemical elements (the fifteen lanthanides plus scandium and yttrium). There would be no Pokémon Go without rare earths. Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography. Klinger looks historically and geographically at the ways rare earth elements in three discrete but representative and contested sites are given meaning.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Front list Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101569

ISBN:

9781501714610

OCLC:

1028759642