Erbium oxide (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for erbium oxide. The reference product is erbium oxide. Erbium is a lanthanide, a rare earth element, that is bound in monzanite sand ores. The principal source of erbium oxide is the ion adsorption clays of southern China, which represents approximately 99% of world production. Erbium oxide (Er2O3) is used in many different applications, including in medical applications (lasers and options), colouring (glass, cubic zirconia and porcelain), and as an alloy in metallurgy. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/23381/documentation.