LREE

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LREE (plural LREEs)

(geology) Initialism of light rare earth element.
- 2024, Martin Ondrejka, Peter Bačík, Juraj Majzlan, Pavel Uher, Štefan Ferenc, Tomáš Mikuš, Martin Števko, Mária Čaplovičová, Stanislava Milovská, Alexandra Molnárová, Christiane Rößler, Christian Matthes, “Xenotime-(Gd), a new Gd-dominant mineral of the xenotime group from the Zimná Voda REE–U–Au quartz vein, Prakovce, Western Carpathians, Slovakia”, in Mineralogical Magazine‎^[1], volume 88, number 5:
  Due to the lanthanide contraction phenomenon, the REE are further divided into larger LREE (light Ln, La–Sm), medium MREE (Sm–Dy) and smaller HREE (heavy Ln, Tb–Lu and Y).