1. Inner Transition Metals

2. Cerium The Element Cerium is defined as… A lustrous Iron-gray
Malleable metallic rare-earth element that occurs chiefly in the mineral monazite.
Exists in four allotropic states, is a constituent of lighter flint alloys.

3. Praseodymium Physical Characteristics: Soft Silvery Malleable
Ductile metal
Praseodymium metal reacts with all the halogens.

4. Thorium Naturally occurring Slightly radioactive metal
It is estimated to be about three to four times more abundant than uranium in the Earth's crust
Thorium was successfully used as a breeding (fertile) source for nuclear fuel – uranium
When used in molten-salt reactors, thorium bred to 233U removes weaponization dangers.

5. Curium is a synthetic chemical element
A radioactive metallic of the actinide series, curium is produced by bombarding plutonium with alpha particles.
Curium is named after Marie and Pierre Curie, who discovered radium and polonium, but not curium. It has some specialized applications in research, but is not generally available outside a few institutions.

6. Californium
Californium is one of the highest atomic mass elements to have been produced in weighable amounts.
The element was first produced in 1950 by bombarding curium with alpha particles
Detects explosives
Treatments for cancer

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8. Lanthanide Rare Earth element
Used in glass and television to reduce glare.
Used in cameras and binoculars.
Lanthanide Rare Earth element
Ceramics - used to make colored ceramic and glasses .
Group of 15 elements that are very similar because their outermost orbital are empty.
Used in oil refining industries because it speeds up the conversion of crude petroleum to make gasoline.

9. Plutonium Metallic Chemical element
Used in nuclear weapons and as a fuel in nuclear reactors.
Absorbed by bone marrow and highly poisonous.
If handled correctly plutonium is environmental friendly (used by NASA to power equipment on the moon).
Most use of plutonium was during WWll the “Atomic Bomb”

10. Neodymium Formed from various minerals Metallic chemical element
Neodymium Iron
Silvery color and extremely bright
Rarely appears in pure form because of the reactivity to air
Try to not inhale because dust from the metal to the mouth, nose, eyes, and lungs can irritate mucus membranes.

11. Actinide Have similar chemical properties to lanthanides
Unstable chemical
They are all bivalent
the properties differing only slightly with different atomic numbers
Power source in heart pacemaker,
Treatment of cancer, and
Smoke detectors
Grouped together because of their chemical similarities

12. Dysprosium Metallic chemical element
Tends to be expensive since it is
hard to extract reliably
Soft silvery metal
Worlds most major producer is China
Slightly toxic

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