Mischmetal (gadolinium oxide to generic market for)

The activity generating the emissions is gadolinium oxide to generic market for mischmetal. The Reference Product is mischmetal. Mischmetal is a mixture of metals. The product contains 53% Ce, 21% La, 17% Nd, 6% Pr, 0.2% Sm, the rest consisting of Eu, Gd and others. It is produced from bastnaesite by wet chemical attack and fused salt electrolysis. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: metal hydride batteries and alloying constituent in HSLA steels. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/23415/documentation