Lutetium oxide (rare earth oxides production - from rare earth carbonate concentrate)

The activity generating the emissions is rare earth oxides production, from rare earth carbonate concentrate. The Reference Product is lutetium oxide. Lutetium is a lanthanide, a rare earth element, that is predominatly obtained from the ion adsorption clays of southern China - representing approximately 98% of world production. Lutetium oxide (Lu2O3) has few commercial uses due to its high price and scarcity but can be as a catalyst in petroleum cracking or as a lens material in lithography. 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/23600/documentation