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"Lanthanum" Definition

noun

A soft, silvery-white, malleable, ductile, metallic rare-earth element, obtained chiefly from monazite and bastnaesite and used in glass manufacture and with other rare earths in carbon lights for movie and television studio lighting. Atomic number 57; atomic weight 138.91; melting point 920°C; boiling point 3,469°C; specific gravity 5.98 to 6.186; valence 3. See Table at element.
A white soft malleable metallic element that occurs in rare-earth minerals .
The chemical element of atomic number 57, a silvery-white rare earth metal.

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