Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A bright, silvery rare-earth metal element, found in monazite and bastnaesite and used for coloring glass and for doping some glass lasers. Atomic number 60; atomic weight 144.24; melting point 1,024°C; boiling point 3,027°C; specific gravity 6.80 or 7.004 (depending on allotropic form); valence 3. See Table at element.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An element which occurs in cerite, albanite, and other comparatively rare minerals. In 1803 Berzelius and Hisinger recognized as containing a new metallic oxid an earth-like substance extracted from cerite and gave to the metal the name cerium. In 1839 Mosander showed that this oxid contained a second metal, which he named lanthanum, and in 1841 the same chemist proved that there was also present still another metal, which he called
didymium . In 1885 Auer von Welsbach succeeded, by a most laborious series of fractional crystallizations of certain suits of the didymium of Mosander, in resolving these into salts of two distinct metals, for which he proposed the names neodymium, and praseodymium, respectively. Neodymium has the higher atomic weight of the two: it forms a single oxid of faint bluish-gray tint and its salts are characterized by a bright rose-red color inclining to violet red, affording special absorption and emission spectra. Neodymium is present in larger proportion than praseodymium in the original didymium compounds of Mosander.
Wiktionary
- n. A metallic chemical element (symbol Nd) with an atomic number of 60.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) The chemical element of atomic number 60, one of the rare earth elements. Symbol Nd. Atomic weight 144.27.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs in monazite and bastnasite in association with cerium and lanthanum and praseodymium
Etymologies
- From neo- + (di)dymium. (Wiktionary)
- neo- + (di)dymium. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The magnets, manufactured mostly in China, were called neodymium magnets.”
“It takes 2-4 pounds per Prius, and Japan has had to buy much of their neodymium from the Chinese black market.”
“That light gets funneled into a crystal of a material called neodymium-doped yttrium orthovanadate, which is common to lab lasers.”
“The U.S. has become almost completely dependent on China for rare earth metals, including neodymium, which is used in hard disk drive magnets, according to testimony at a congressional hearing last month.”
“The size of the headphone doesn't necessarily relate to magnetic strength; small, portable ones typically use neodymium, which is one of the most powerful and concentrated magnetic substances, Maisel said.”
“The size of the headphone doesn't necessarily relate to magnetic strength; small, portable ones typically use neodymium, which is one of the most powerful and concentrated magnetic substances, Dr. Maisel said.”
“Other minerals, such as neodymium (crucial for hard-disk drives and wind turbines), europium (used in lasers), cerium (which reduces carbon monoxide in engine exhaust), and lanthanum (key for many hybrid and electric-car batteries), would face a combined export quota of 35,000 tons annually — woefully insufficient to fill global needs.”
“The theory predicts levitation forces of up to 50 metric tons per square meter of magnet array using modern permanent magnet materials such as neodymium-iron-boron.”
“In addition to the Prius, rare-earth minerals such as neodymium and dysprosium are used in motor magnets in Nissan Motor Co.'s all-electric Leaf car, General Motors Co.'s plug-in Volt and Honda Motor Co.'s Insight hybrid, as well as in mobile phones and rechargeable batteries.”
Toyota Readying Electric Motors That Don't Use Rare Earths - Bloomberg
“The audio system's speakers use "neodymium" magnets instead of iron magnets to shave off an additional 5 gram per speaker.”
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sonofgroucho Has anyone ever seen this stuff? Great name, though! Dec 9, 2007