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So uncommon it borrows value from sheer reluctance to exist.
means Occurring infrequently or in small numbers, and therefore often prized; also, of meat, cooked only briefly so the center stays red.
from Two unrelated Latin parents: rarus, meaning thin or sparse, and a separate Old English rere, meaning lightly cooked egg, which later drifted to steak.
Steak splitThe meat sense diverged centuries before color-coded doneness charts.
EconomicsScarcity, not beauty, sets most collector prices.
Earth metalsRare earth elements are actually fairly abundant, just scattered.