How do you use Holmium in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like metal, plus the exact meaning.
Holmium in a sentence
Holmium meaning
- A chemical element (symbol Ho) with atomic number 67: a soft and malleable silvery-white metal, too reactive to be found uncombined in nature.
- A single atom of this element.
Synonyms of Holmium
Using Holmium
- The main meaning on this page is: A chemical element (symbol Ho) with atomic number 67: a soft and malleable silvery-white metal, too reactive to be found uncombined in nature. | A single atom of this element.
- Useful related words include: ho, atomic number 67, metallic element, metal.
- In the example corpus, holmium often appears in combinations such as: holmium is, to holmium, of holmium.
Context around Holmium
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Holmium
- In this selection, "holmium" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, form, laser, earths, strongly, instead and doped stand out and add context to how "holmium" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include because holmium strongly absorbs and belonged to holmium instead of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "holmium" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with holmium
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Holmium has a low level of acute toxicity. (8 words)
In pure form, holmium possesses a metallic, bright silvery luster. (10 words)
Plants do not readily take up holmium from the soil. (10 words)
Holmium is used in yttrium- iron garnet (YIG)- and yttrium- lanthanum -fluoride (YLF) solid-state lasers found in microwave equipment (which are in turn found in a variety of medical and dental settings). (33 words)
In 1879, Swedish chemist Per Theodor Cleve separated in the rare earth erbia another two previously unknown components, which he called holmia and thulia : these were the oxides of holmium and thulium respectively. (33 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 (20)
Because holmium strongly absorbs neutrons, it is also used as a burnable poison in nuclear reactors.
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.
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.
Holmium -doped YAG crystals emit at 2097 nm and form an efficient laser operating at infrared wavelengths strongly absorbed by water-bearing tissues.
Holmium has a low level of acute toxicity.
Holmium is rare for a lanthanide. citation It makes up 500 parts per trillion of the universe by weight.
Holmium is used in yttrium- iron garnet (YIG)- and yttrium- lanthanum -fluoride (YLF) solid-state lasers found in microwave equipment (which are in turn found in a variety of medical and dental settings).
In 1879, Swedish chemist Per Theodor Cleve separated in the rare earth erbia another two previously unknown components, which he called holmia and thulia : these were the oxides of holmium and thulium respectively.
In pure form, holmium possesses a metallic, bright silvery luster.
It is the only isotope of thulium that is thought to be stable, although it is predicted to undergo alpha decay to holmium -165 with a very long half-life.
Laser Holmium chromium -thulium triple-doped Yttrium aluminum garnet (Ho:Cr:Tm:YAG, or Ho,Cr,Tm:YAG) is an active laser medium material with high efficiency.
Laser lithotripsy is another technique, which involves the use of a holmium yttrium aluminium garnet (Ho:YAG) laser to fragment stones in the bladder, ureters, and kidneys.
Occurrence and production Gadolinite Like all other rare earths, holmium is not naturally found as a free element.
Plants do not readily take up holmium from the soil.
Some synthetic radioactive isotopes are known; the most stable one is holmium-163, with a half life of 4570 years.
Some vegetables have had their holmium content measured, and it amounted to 100 parts per trillion.
The brown substance was the oxide of the element holmium and was named holmia by Cleve, and the green substance was the oxide of an unknown element.
The other heavier lanthanides – terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, and ytterbium – become ferromagnetic at much lower temperatures.
The primary decay products before are element 67 ( holmium ) isotopes, and the primary products after are element 69 ( thulium ) isotopes.
Yttrium makes up about two-thirds of the total by weight; holmium is around 1.5%.
Common combinations with holmium
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- holmium is 4×
- to holmium 2×
- of holmium 2×
- holmium and 2×
- element holmium 2×