Soviet textbook illustration showing the importance of strategic elements and metals for war-fighting, 1948.pic.twitter.com/oMZklOgndh
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And why, on earth, would rare earth elements have been so important?
Probably for doping other things with (alloys, etc.). But I don't know what they had in mind for this illustration.
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:-D Seems like a graphical artist just copied their periodic table. An the rare earths jumped out. Anyway, that’s probably just misleading.
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