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  • 🇬🇧 Lanthanum
  • 🇺🇦 Лантан
  • 🇨🇳 鑭
  • 🇳🇱 Lanthaan
  • 🇫🇷 Lanthane
  • 🇩🇪 Lanthan
  • 🇮🇱 לנתן
  • 🇮🇹 Lantanio
  • 🇯🇵 ランタン
  • 🇵🇹 Lantânio
  • 🇪🇸 Lantano
  • 🇸🇪 Lantan
  • 🇷🇺 Лантан

The following uses for lanthanum are gathered from a number of sources as well as from anecdotal comments. I would be delighted to receive corrections as well as additional referenced uses.

  • rare-earth compounds containing lanthanum are extensively used in carbon lighting applications, especially by the motion picture industry for studio lighting and projection
  • 203La improves the alkali resistance of glass, and is used in making special optical glasses
  • small amounts as an additive are used to produce nodular cast iron
  • hydrogen sponge alloys containing lanthanum reversibly take up to 400 times their own volume of hydrogen gas. Heat is released, therefore these alloys have potential in energy conservation systems
  • lighter flints
  • alloys