In our modern world, REO and REM are used in over 200 products.
In high power industrial permanent magnets used in many motors and generators, such as wind turbines, electric vehicles and washing machines. The strength of these magnets allows them to be much smaller than regular magnets which are made without REE.
In healthcare and medical devices, such as X-ray, MRI and NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) devices.
In electronics, such as computer hard disks and monitors, flat screen televisions and electronic displays.
In lights, screens, and glass such as fluorescent and LED lighting, screens that range in size from smart phone displays to stadium scoreboards, and for colouring and polishing glass. Their luminescence quality makes them vital for the red-green-blue phosphors used in many light bulbs, panels, and televisions.
In steel alloys they are commonly used in the form of mixed oxide known as mischmetal. They are used in steel making to remove impurities and in the production of special alloys.
In sound and recording devices, such as electro-acoustic pick-ups, loudspeakers, microphones, headphones and transverse wave tubes (to amplify radio frequency).
REE also have applications in the aviation, aerospace and defence sectors.
