{"id":2808,"date":"2026-04-14T04:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2026-04-14T04:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:09:31","slug":"lanthanum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/lanthanum\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Lanthanum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lanthanum is a soft, silvery rare earth metal used in catalysts, optical glass and battery materials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Lanthanum<\/strong> | It commonly exhibits +3 oxidation state, forms oxides used in catalysts and enhances optical properties in glass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Lanthanum<\/strong> | Lanthanum is used in petroleum refining catalysts, camera lenses, nickel metal hydride batteries and specialty alloys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Lanthanum<\/strong> | Stable isotope La 139 predominates; lanthanum compounds are handled with standard industrial precautions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lanthanide used in catalysts, optics and battery technologies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5766,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions\/5766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}