How to pronounce“lanthanide”in English
side to the right-hand side and you lose about 25% of the radius of the atoms as you move from the left to the right and this is called the
‘lanthanide contraction.’ This is actually what’s responsible for 2nd and 3rd row transition metals having very similar types of chemistry by group
even though actually they should be quite different. The 3rd row should be much larger but, because of the ‘lanthanide contraction’, that
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Definitions of “lanthanide”
Any of the 15 rare earth elements from lanthanum to lutetium in the periodic table; because their outermost orbitals are not filled, they have very similar chemistry; below them are the actinides.
Any of the 14 rare earth elements from lanthanum to ytterbium (lutetium is excluded by some authors as it is a d-block rather than an f-block element).
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