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Question
Who first called Rare Earth Minerals this name, Rare Earth's?
Is there an alternative name?
I have been advised these minerals are not rare only difficult to obtain.

Answer
The term "rare earths" has an interesting historical origin tied to their discovery in the late 18th century. It’s not attributed to a single individual but rather emerged from the scientific context of that time. In 1787, a Swedish army lieutenant named Carl Axel Arrhenius found an unusual black mineral in a quarry near Ytterby, Sweden. This mineral, later called gadolinite, caught the attention of chemist Johan Gadolin, who analyzed it in 1794 and identified a new "earth"—a term used back then for oxide compounds that couldn’t be broken down further with the heat sources available. Gadolin named this substance "yttria," after Ytterby. At the time, these "earths" were considered rare because they were found in minerals that seemed scarce and were tricky to isolate due to their chemical similarity to one ...

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