Rare Earth Elements
Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are uncommon metals materials that are difficult to obtain, especially in large quantities throughout the early-game. All of them can be obtained from rare earth ore, which drops rare earth chunks that can be hammered in the 
anvil to get every REE except zirconium, or processed in the 
centrifuge to get more of the common REEs (including zirconium) and none of the rare REEs.
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Other than this, all REEs (except cerium) can be artificially created inside the 
cyclotron. NTM includes 7 rare earth metals, some of which have very few uses outside of 
desh and 
Nitanium.
Boron
| Boron | |
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| Properties | |
| Type | Element |
| Exists in Reality | Yes |
| Atomic Number | 5 |
Boron is a significant material, see its own page for more information.
Boron is a rare bluish grey metalloid. Its atomic properties make it useful as a neutron absorber. It has no particular ore.
Production
- Initially acquired from rare earth ore.
- Borax processing yields boron:
 500mB    3
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Lanthanium
 | This feature has significantly fewer uses/functions compared to its peers, because Bob forgot. Keep this in mind if you are planning on dedicating time and resources to producing it. |
| Lanthanium | |
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| Properties | |
| Type | Element |
| Made With/By | Mining, Cyclotron |
| Exists in Reality | Yes |
| Atomic Number | 57 |
Production
- Rare earth ore, although the yields are very low.
- Bombarding caesium with coal:
    
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Uses
lanthanium capacitors (NTM: Space).- Desh blend.
- Electrode for
arc furnace:
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Trivia
- In real name is "lanthanum".
- The root of its name means "to lie hidden".
- Lanthanum is prefixed with "semi-stable", which is leftover from a scrapped idea, which is the reason it's in NTM. Unfortunately Bob has no memory of what that idea was supposed to be.
Gallery
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Powder -
Tiny powder -
Fragment
Cobalt
| Cobalt | |
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| Properties | |
| Type | Element |
| Made With/By | Mining; Byproduct extraction |
| Exists in Reality | Yes |
| Atomic Number | 27 |
Cobalt is a significant material, see its own page for more information.
Cobalt is a rare blue metal. It has many applications, from alloys to tools, and is a key resource for its use in 
high-speed steel alloying.
Production
- When mined, cobalt ore drops cobalt fragments, to obtain the ore a silk touch pickaxe is required.
- Rare earth ore contains trace amounts of cobalt.
- It can be produced in a cyclotron.
  
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Cerium
| This feature has significantly fewer uses/functions compared to its peers, because it is an intermediate product. Keep this in mind if you are planning on dedicating time and resources to producing it. |
| Cerium | |
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| Properties | |
| Type | Element |
| Made With/By | Mining, Cyclotron |
| Exists in Reality | Yes |
| Atomic Number | 58 |
Part of the lanthanide series, generally not very useful.
Production
- Initially acquired from rare earth ore, although the yields are very low.
- Can be produced by bombarding lanthanium with lithium in a cyclotron.
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Uses
- Desh blend.
- Nitanium.
DFC reaction catalysts.
Pulsating crystal.- Bombarding it with beryllium produces neodymium.
 
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Trivia
- In real life, it is actually rather common.
Gallery
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Cerium fragment
Neodymium
Main Page: Neodymium
| Neodymium | |
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| Properties | |
| Type | Element |
| Made With/By | Mining |
| Exists in Reality | Yes |
| Atomic Number | 60 |
Part of the lanthanide series, useful for its magnetic properties.
Production
- Initially acquired from rare earth ore.
 
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Uses
- The Cyclotron.
- Some
Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor (ICF) parts. - Bombarding it with
coal produces 
gold:
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- Desh blend.
- Nitanium.
- The dark crystal.
Trivia
- In real life, elemental neodymium alone is not very magnetic, it needs to be alloyed with other metals to form the strong magnets it's known for.
Gallery
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Fragment
Niobium
Main Page: Niobium
| Niobium | |
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| Properties | |
| Type | Element |
| Made With/By | Mining, Cyclotron |
| Exists in Reality | Yes |
| Atomic Number | 41 |
Niobium is an important catalyst in many oil refining machines, and is useful in making capacitors.
Production
- Initially acquired from rare earth ore.
- Meteor treasure blocks have a chance to drop the ingot form.
- Can be made using two recipes in the Cyclotron:
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- Can be made by purifying coltan in the chemical plant:
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| Coltan Purifying Duration: 3.0s |
 250mB 500mB     500mB  |
Uses
bismuth motors
bismuth compound plates- Desh blend.
- DFC reaction catalysts
- Pulsating crystal
- Nitanium.
- Bombarding it with
copper produces 
caesium.
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Trivia
- It has the same Mohs hardness as titanium.
Gallery
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Tiny powder -
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Zirconium
The most common REE in game, can be found in the form of depth ore.
Zirconium is a significant material, see its own page for more information.
Trivia
- In real life, REEs are a specific set of 17 extremely similar elements, which are usually lanthanides or at least have similar properties to them.
- The REEs in NTM are simply rare elements that have only a few, specific uses, and come from the same ore, and fill the same niche as real-life REEs. So in all intents and purposes, they are considered rare earths.