This is a permanent magnet.

Well, Rare Earth actually taught me an awful lot about meeting the public.

Helium 3 very rare on the surface of the Earth, very common in space.

Now, you see the magnet fell really slowly.

So, in 2000 we wrote Rare Earth. In 2003, we then asked, let's not think about where Earths are in space, but how long has Earth been Earth?

And those bumps act like a magnet for water.

Rare earth ores in southern China all except for those in Inner Mongolia contain radioactive substances that pose significant threats to human health and the environment. Other countries might worry about the health risk to workers in rare earth processing, but that does not appear to be true of China.

Now, I can extend this circular magnet, and make whatever track I want.

That's very rare.

What's unexpected about this is that it's soft, but it's also a strong magnet.

You won't be surprised to hear that if I take this circular magnet, in which the magnetic field is the same all around, the superconductor will be able to freely rotate around the axis of the magnet.

It's a rare condition.

But this shouldn t be a threat at all, because the world has ample reserves of these elements. Indeed, rare earth elements are rare only in the sense that they are distributed in small quantities and must be extracted from ores, a time consuming process.

So, we have quantum locking and we can levitate it on top of this magnet.

A stable, predictable and conflict free environment acts as a magnet for foreign direct investment.

Solo press conferences are rare.

This is extremely rare fungus.

I would like mine rare.

But China has another motive for tightening the noose on rare earth exports it wants to force high tech firms to operate in China, so that local companies can absorb their technologies. A senior official of a Chinese company has said that, even though rare earth exports have been restricted, Japanese companies can secure their supply by launching operations in China.

And when I place it on top of a regular magnet, it just stays locked in midair.

But there's another rare syndrome, so rare, in fact, that very few physicians have heard about it, not even neurologists.

Medium rare and a potato, please.

Because it's neither rare nor well done.

They're more rare than the panda bear.

Which, even at Yale, is extraordinarily rare.

Now when you're in an fMRI scanner, you're in a big magnet that's aligning your molecules in certain areas.

Well, the second part of that, soon after and I was talking to Paul Allen I saw him in the audience, and I handed him a copy of Rare Earth.

It's already done to avoid rare diseases today.

Such poets as Toson and Hakushu are rare.

It's rare to find big yards in Japan.

A real friend is like a rare bird.

It's rare to meet nice people like you.

At the same time, however, these riches make it a magnet for poachers, who decimate its elephant and rhinoceros herds.

An eclipse of the moon is a rare phenomenon.

So if you look at cancers, it is very rare extremely rare to have cancer in a child, on the order of thousands of cases a year.

And we had custom espresso cups made that hide a magnet inside, and make those compasses go crazy, always centering on them.

The missionary position is very rare in the animal kingdom.

The de facto export ban on rare earth elements often referred to as industrial vitamins struck a terrible blow to Japanese companies, which rely on China for 97 of their supply. Among a variety of rare earth elements, neodymium and dysprosium are widely used as a magnetic material for motors in environmentally friendly vehicles and home appliances, while erbium is used as a dopant in optical fibers and cerium as an abrasive for polishing liquid crystal display (LCD) glass.

And what was so striking about that time was, instead of repulsing people, I was actually proving to be a magnet for people.

His passion of bus to me is very rare and unique.

Though rare, cases of pigs attacking humans have been recorded before.

Federal prosecutors seeking rare death penalty for NYC terror attack suspect

It is rare to get an exogenous investment in girls' education.

it's probably extremely rare for cancers to be transferred between people.

It's very rare among countries to have this kind of pattern.