Rare earth
Rare earth may refer to:
Rare earth element
A rare earth element (REE) or rare earth metal (REM), as defined by IUPAC, is one of a set of seventeen chemical elements in the periodic table, specifically the fifteen lanthanides, as well as scandium and yttrium. Scandium and yttrium are considered rare earth elements because they tend to occur in the same ore deposits as the lanthanides and exhibit similar chemical properties.
Despite their name, rare earth elements are – with the exception of the radioactive promethium – relatively plentiful in Earth's crust, with cerium being the 25th most abundant element at 68 parts per million, or as abundant as copper. They are not especially rare, but they tend to occur together in nature and are difficult to separate from one another. (The word "rare" is an archaic word for "difficult".) However, because of their geochemical properties, rare earth elements are typically dispersed and not often found concentrated as rare earth minerals in economically exploitable ore deposits. It was the very scarcity of these minerals (previously called "earths") that led to the term "rare earth". The first such mineral discovered was gadolinite, a mineral composed of cerium, yttrium, iron, silicon and other elements. This mineral was extracted from a mine in the village of Ytterby in Sweden; four of the rare earth elements bear names derived from this single location.
Rare Earth (book)
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe is a 2000 popular science book about xenobiology by Peter Ward, a geologist and paleontologist, and Donald E. Brownlee, an astronomer and astrobiologist, both faculty members at the University of Washington. The book is the origin of the term 'Rare Earth Hypothesis' which, like the book, asserts the concept that complex life is rare in the universe.
Synopsis
The book argues that the universe is fundamentally hostile to complex life and that while microbial life may be common in the universe, complex intelligent life (like the evolution of biological complexity from simple life on Earth) required an exceptionally unlikely set of circumstances, and therefore complex life is likely to be extremely rare. The book argues that among the essential criteria for life are a terrestrial planet with plate tectonics and oxygen, a large moon, magnetic field, a gas giant like Jupiter for protection and an orbit in the habitable zone of the right kind of star.
Podcasts:
Rare Earth
ALBUMS
- The Collection released: 2004
- 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Rare Earth released: 2001
- Get Ready ... And Other Hits released: 1999
- Star Power released: 1998
- Anthology: The Best of Rare Earth released: 1995
- Earth Tones: The Essential Rare Earth released: 1994
- Different World released: 1993
- Get Ready / Bonuses released: 1991
- Greatest Hits and Rare classics released: 1991
- Made in Switzerland released: 1989
- Get Ready/Ecology released: 1986
- Grand Slam released: 1978
- Band Together released: 1978
- Rarearth released: 1977
- Midnight Lady released: 1976
- Back to Earth released: 1975
- Ma released: 1973
- Willie Remembers released: 1972
- One World released: 1971
- Rare Earth in Concert released: 1971
- Ecology released: 1970
- Get Ready released: 1969
- Dreams/Answers released: 1968
- One World & Willie Remembers released:
- The Very Best of Rare Earth released:
The Collection
Released 2004- Magic Key
- Get Ready
- Tobacco Road
- Feelin' Alright
- In Bed
- (I Know) I'm Losing You
- Born To Wander
- Satisfaction Guarenteed
- Long Time Leavin'
- No.1 Man
- I Just Want To Celebrate
- Someone To Love
- Love Shines Down
- Here Comes The Night
- What'd I Say
- Under God's Light
- Hey Big Brother
- We're Gonna Have A Good Time
Anthology: The Best of Rare Earth
Released 1995- I Just Cried
- King of a Rainy Country
- Get Ready
- Generation (Light of the Sky)
- Child of Fortune / One World
- In Bed
- (I Know) I'm Losing You
- Long Time Leavin'
- Born to Wander
- What'd I Say
- I Just Want to Celebrate
- If I Die
- Hey Big Brother
- Good Time Sally
- Think of the Children
- We're Gonna Have a Good Time
- Nice to Be With You
Greatest Hits and Rare classics
Released 1991- Get Ready
- Generation (Light up the Sky)
- (I Know) I'm Losing You
- When Joanie Smiles
- Born to Wander
- Here Comes the Night
- I Just Want to Celebrate
- Love Shines Down
- Good Time Sally
- Hey Big Brother
- We're Gonna Have a Good Time
- Big John is My Name
- Chained
- Warm Ride
- I Can Feel My Love Risin'
- Keepin' Me out of the Storm
- It Makes You Happy (But it Ain't Gonna Last)
- Midnight Lady
- Hum Along and Dance
- Fresh From the Can
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What'd I Say?
by: Rare EarthHey Mama, ant you aware to treat me wrong.
Come and love, come and love me,
Love me all night long.
When you see me down, down in misery
Come on, come on girl,
Come on and see about me.
Coro
Tell me what I´d said - what I´said
what I´said - what I´said.
Tell me, what I´d said - what I´said.
What I´said, What I´said, hey, hey, hey.
Uhh Tell you´re mama,
c´mon and tell you´re pá.
Ít´s taken one and half of shipping bags
Take me back to Arkansas.
When you see me woman, when you see me in misery
C´mon, c´mon girl, c´mon and see about me.
Coro
Tell me what I´d said - what I´said
Awhat I´said - what I´said.
Tell me, what I´d said - what I´said.
What I´said, What I´said, hey, hey, hey.
Tell me, that I said
Solo Requinto
Solo sax y órgano, bajo, guitarra
Solo Órgano
Hey, hey, hey, ----hey, hey, hey,
Hey mamamama, ---- hey mamamama
Hey Hooo hey hooo, Hey Hooo hey hooo
Coro
I fill so good- what I´said
I fill o rait - what I´said.
Tell me, what I´d said - ah what I´said.
What I´said, What I´said, hey, hey, hey.
What I said Hey, hey, hey
What I said Hey, hey, hey
What I said Hey, hey, hey
What I said Hey, hey, hey
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