Get to know Dysprosium better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like metal.
Dysprosium in a sentence
Dysprosium meaning
A metallic chemical element (symbol Dy) with atomic number 66: a rare earth element with a metallic silver lustre. Applications in human affairs include magnets with high performance, which are important in various machines with electric motors.
Synonyms of Dysprosium
Using Dysprosium
- The main meaning on this page is: A metallic chemical element (symbol Dy) with atomic number 66: a rare earth element with a metallic silver lustre. Applications in human affairs include magnets with high performance, which are important in various machines with electric motors.
- Useful related words include: dy, atomic number 66, metallic element, metal.
- In the example corpus, dysprosium often appears in combinations such as: dysprosium and, dysprosium is, and dysprosium.
Context around Dysprosium
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dysprosium
- In this selection, "dysprosium" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, praseodymium, properties, sample, sample, accounting and suggesting stand out and add context to how "dysprosium" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include neodymium praseodymium dysprosium and terbium and analogy for dysprosium and instead. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dysprosium" sits close to words such as abad, abovementioned and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dysprosium
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Dysprosium fires cannot be put out by water. (8 words)
Crystals of calcium sulfate or calcium fluoride are doped with dysprosium. (11 words)
Nanofibers of dysprosium compounds have high strength and a large surface area. (12 words)
However, when the research team synthesized element 98, they could not think of a good analogy for dysprosium, and instead named the element californium in honor of the state in which it was synthesized, California. (35 words)
The grade range for the exploration target comprises a notable proportion of magnet REE (neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium), which has the potential to be competitive with other REE projects globally. (31 words)
Dysprosium's physical characteristics can be greatly affected by even small amounts of impurities. citation Dysprosium and holmium have the highest magnetic strengths of the elements, especially at low temperatures. (30 words)
Example sentences (18)
Characteristics Physical properties Dysprosium sample Dysprosium is a rare earth element that has a metallic, bright silver luster.
Dysprosium's physical characteristics can be greatly affected by even small amounts of impurities. citation Dysprosium and holmium have the highest magnetic strengths of the elements, especially at low temperatures.
China currently dominates the supply of rare earth components, particularly those containing terbium and dysprosium, accounting for nearly 90% of the world's rare earth permanent magnets.
For its long-term outlook, Mkango continues to prioritize the development of sustainable rare earth recycling and manufacturing to meet accelerating global demand for neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium.
The grade range for the exploration target comprises a notable proportion of magnet REE (neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium), which has the potential to be competitive with other REE projects globally.
There are very strong positive correlations between neodymium and praseodymium, samarium, terbium, gadolinium and dysprosium suggesting a favourable geological environment for rare earth elements.
As the reaction progresses, the resulting halide compounds and molten dysprosium separate due to differences in density.
Crystals of calcium sulfate or calcium fluoride are doped with dysprosium.
Dysprosium can then be separated from other rare earth metals by an ion exchange displacement process.
Dysprosium fires cannot be put out by water.
Dysprosium is used, in conjunction with vanadium and other elements, in making laser materials and commercial lighting.
He was only able to isolate dysprosium from its oxide after more than 30 attempts at his procedure.
He would have seen x-ray emission lines for both elements, but assumed that the dominant ones belonged to holmium, instead of the dysprosium impurity.
However, when the research team synthesized element 98, they could not think of a good analogy for dysprosium, and instead named the element californium in honor of the state in which it was synthesized, California.
Nanofibers of dysprosium compounds have high strength and a large surface area.
On succeeding, he named the element dysprosium from the Greek dysprositos (δυσπρόσιτος), meaning "hard to get".
The other heavier lanthanides – terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, and ytterbium – become ferromagnetic at much lower temperatures.
When the mixture cools, the dysprosium can be cut away from the impurities.
Common combinations with dysprosium
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: