lanthanide
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: lăn'thənīd, IPA(key): /ˈlænθənaɪd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
lanthanide (plural lanthanides)
- (chemistry) Any of the 15 rare earth elements from lanthanum to lutetium in the periodic table; because their outermost orbitals are not filling, they have very similar chemistry; below them are the actinides.
- (chemistry) 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).
- (chemistry, dated) Any of the 14 rare earth elements from cerium to lutetium (lanthanum having been excluded because it was thought to be a d-block element in the past).
Usage notes
- According to IUPAC - "Although lanthanoid means 'like lanthanum' and so should not include lanthanum, lanthanum has become included by common usage. Similarly, actinoid. The ending 'ide' normally indicates a negative ion, and therefore lanthanoid and actinoid are preferred to lanthanide and actinide. However, lanthanide and actinide are still allowed owing to wide current use."
Synonyms
- lanthanate (obsolete)
- lanthanoid (including lanthanum)
- lanthanon (proposed to avoid confusion with the usual meaning in chemistry of -ide)
- rare-earth element
Derived terms
- lanthanide contraction
- lanthanide series
Translations
A subset of the rare-earth elements
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See also
- lanthanum
- cerium
- praseodymium
- neodymium
- promethium
- samarium
- europium
- gadolinium
- terbium
- dysprosium
- holmium
- erbium
- thulium
- ytterbium
- lutetium
French
Noun
lanthanide m (plural lanthanides)
- lanthanide
Further reading
- “lanthanide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.