How to Use dysprosium in a Sentence

dysprosium

noun
  • The goal will be to produce 12 tons per year of neodymium or dysprosium.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022
  • Neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium are used to build the tiny mechanism that makes your phone vibrate.
    — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • That refers to neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium and terbium.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 28 May 2025
  • 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 these magnets require costly rare-earth metals such as neodymium and dysprosium.
    — Bart Ziegler, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Nearly two-thirds of dysprosium and terbium, two key rare-earth elements, come from northern Myanmar.
    — Dan Swift, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
  • To enhance detection, the plants were treated with sodium tungstate, which amplifies the light emitted by dysprosium.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 19 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The new rules bar exports of rare earths such as dysprosium, yttrium or samarium which play tiny but vital roles in cars, planes, weapons and consumer electronics.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Crucially, in May the Kuantan plant produced its first batch of dysprosium and is expecting its first terbium this month.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 June 2025
  • Tech and green energy sectors, both heavily reliant on rare earth minerals such as neodymium and dysprosium, bore the brunt of the selloff.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Instead of neodymium or dysprosium, the magnet uses less-expensive rare-earth metals lanthanum and cerium.
    — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Greenland has some of the biggest deposits of neodymium, dysprosium, terbium, praseodymium, and uranium.
    — David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Rare earth magnets rely on scarce heavy rare earth elements such as dysprosium and terbium to maintain performance at high temperatures.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
  • The groups started with gases of dysprosium and erbium atoms, which are intrinsically magnetic enough to act like little bar magnets.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
  • What’s more, Greenland is rich with oil and rare earth minerals, like neodymium and dysprosium, which can be used to make objects like smartphones and magnets, among others.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • What’s more, Greenland is rich with oil and rare earth minerals, like neodymium and dysprosium, which can be used to make objects like smartphones and magnets, among others.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Rare earth elements are a set of 17 metallic elements, such as neodymium, europium, and dysprosium.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Neodymium, dysprosium, and praseodymium are used in combination to create the components of an electric engine.
    — Nelson Ching, National Geographic, 10 June 2016
  • 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 list also includes 15 rare earth elements, such as cerium, dysprosium, neodymium and samarium.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Also, the rare-earth elements used in permanent-magnet generators, such as neodymium and dysprosium, are in short supply.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Drone supply chains are complex, from the rare-earth minerals like neodymium and dysprosium required to build magnets and motors to the composite frames that hold rotors and cameras.
    — Jared Perlo, NBC news, 18 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The work focuses on dysprosium, a heavy rare-earth element used to improve heat resistance in magnets and stabilize nuclear control rods.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Rare earths are a collection of 17 minerals where neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium are often considered the most desired.
    — Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The specific rare-earth elements are neodymium, praseodymium, samarium, and dysprosium.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023

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