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Word: lanthanum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Optical glass made without silica (sand or quartz)-"almost as revolutionary," says Eastman Kodak Co., "as if someone had discovered how to make steel without iron." It is compounded of three rare metals: tantalum, tungsten, lanthanum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Technology Notes | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

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