How to Use dysprosium in a Sentence

dysprosium

noun
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  • The goal will be to produce 12 tons per year of neodymium or dysprosium.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022
  • But there’s more than 12 times as much dysprosium in reserves than would be needed in that clean energy push.
    — Seth Borenstein, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023
  • But there's more than 12 times as much dysprosium in reserves than would be needed in that clean energy push.
    — Seth Borenstein, ajc, 27 Jan. 2023
  • But for starters, Phoenix is focused on the rare earths, exotic metals with names like neodymium and dysprosium.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022
  • China processes more than half of the world’s cobalt, lithium, and the class of rare-earth elements (REEs) that includes neodymium, dysprosium, praseodymium, and terbium.
    — Jordan McGillis, National Review, 10 Mar. 2022
  • China processes more than half of the world’s cobalt, lithium, and the class of rare-earth elements (REEs) that includes neodymium, dysprosium, praseodymium, and terbium . . .
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Mar. 2022
  • In recent weeks, as Chinese officials mulled a possible shift in their rare earth export plans, the price of one — dysprosium oxide — rose by 28 percent.
    — Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2021
  • But these magnets require costly rare-earth metals such as neodymium and dysprosium.
    — Bart Ziegler, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Many car companies are also redesigning power trains and the magnets inside them to reduce the need for neodymium and dysprosium.
    — Suresh Sunderrajan, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • During the last 34 million years, the fossils slowly absorbed yttrium, europium, terbium, and dysprosium from the fluid trapped in the mud.
    — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Greenland has some of the biggest deposits of neodymium, dysprosium, terbium, praseodymium, and uranium.
    — David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Some industry analysts believe that Tesla’s move will have minimal effect on the market for neodymium and dysprosium, the key rare earths in the most common EV magnets.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Adding a heavy rare earth like dysprosium and sometimes terbium makes the magnet more temperature stable, and suitable for use in offshore wind turbines where maintenance costs are high.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Rare earth elements are a set of 17 metallic elements, such as neodymium, europium, and dysprosium.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Moving to all EVs globally is projected to require a tripling of cobalt production, a 70% spike in neodymium and dysprosium mining, and a doubling of copper production.
    — Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 4 May 2022
  • Instead of neodymium or dysprosium, the magnet uses less-expensive rare-earth metals lanthanum and cerium.
    — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Neodymium, dysprosium, and praseodymium are used in combination to create the components of an electric engine.
    — Nelson Ching, National Geographic, 10 June 2016
  • Even the more prized magnetic elements such as neodymium, dysprosium, praseodymium and samarium are humdrum enough that Apple Inc. uses rare-earth magnets to make its power cables stick in place.
    — Washington Post, 31 May 2019
  • That’s all to say that rare earth metals like neodymium (and commonly used additives like dysprosium, terbium, and praesodymium) are pretty important.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 June 2023
  • The manganese crusts are also estimated to contain other rare earth metals, such as neodymium, yttrium and dysprosium.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The initial throughput of the facility could supply enough dysprosium for 1 million electric vehicles and, at peak, something like 3 million electric vehicles, the CEO said.
    — Abby Smith, Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The permanent magnets can be improved, too, by making them from strongly magnetic rare-earth materials such as dysprosium and neodymium.
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • As researchers discovered decades ago, magnetic strength can be greatly improved by adding to the crystalline lattice atoms with unpaired electrons in the 4f orbital—notably the rare-earth elements neodymium, samarium, and dysprosium.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
  • For example, dysprosium is a mineral used for magnets in wind turbines and a big push for cleaner electricity would require three times as much dysprosium as currently produced, the paper said.
    — Seth Borenstein, ajc, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Some examples include cobalt, indium, tellurium and dysprosium; the only way to mine them is to purify them during the refinement of other elements.
    — Xiaozhi Lim, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2020
  • Heavy REEs—those with high atomic numbers, including dysprosium, yttrium, and terbium—are most commonly extracted from masses of clay formed through eons of weathering of igneous rocks such as granite.
    — Bydennis Normile, science.org, 1 Nov. 2022
  • This is good news for large wind turbine manufacturers that rely on magnet generators made from neodymium and dysprosium, among other rare-earth elements like praseodymium (Pr) and terbium (Tb).
    — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2019
  • Very small amounts of these materials — including neodymium, dysprosium and yttrium — contribute to many signature products of the modern world, such as cell phones, electric cars, wind turbines and precision weapons.
    — Eugene Gholz For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 23 July 2019
  • Just the suggestion that Beijing could starve American factories of essential materials has sent rare-earth prices soaring over the past month, with dysprosium oxide, used in lasers and nuclear-reactor control rods, up by one-third.
    — David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2019
  • Building and erecting wind turbines requires hundreds of tons of materials — steel, concrete, fiberglass, copper, and more exotic stuff like neodymium and dysprosium used in permanent magnets.
    — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021

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