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Seekers of the lost lanthanum

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Lanthanum is the first lanthanide — or the last. Or it’s not a lanthanide at all. In any case, Brett Thornton and Shawn Burdette are sure that it’s an element that might or might not be in group three of the periodic table.

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  1. Department of Geological Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Brett F. Thornton

  2. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA

    Shawn C. Burdette

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Correspondence to Brett F. Thornton or Shawn C. Burdette.

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Thornton, B.F., Burdette, S.C. Seekers of the lost lanthanum. Nature Chem 11, 188 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-018-0208-3

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