How to Use gadolinium in a Sentence

gadolinium

noun
  • The mud is believed to contain dysprosium and neodymium, which are used in electric vehicle motor magnets, as well as gadolinium and terbium, used in various high-tech products, Ishii said.
    — Yuka Obayashi, Reuters, 4 July 2025
  • Beijing’s control of neodymium, praseodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, and yttrium oxides is virtually total.
    — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 10 May 2026
  • Among the recovered materials, dysprosium, ytterbium, and erbium are considered high-value due to strong demand and limited substitutes, while yttrium and gadolinium are widely used in electronics, lighting, and healthcare.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The mineral deposits at Bear Lodge contain both the magnet rare earth materials neodymium, praseodymium, samarium and terbium as well as cerium (Ce), lanthanum, yttrium, gadolinium, europium and dysprosium.
    — Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026
  • According to project specifications, the Missouri site will produce significant quantities of neodymium and praseodymium, alongside a range of strategic heavy rare earths including dysprosium, terbium, samarium, gadolinium, and holmium.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Separately, in research to be presented later this week, imec will show 300-mm compatible process optimizations steps to improve MoS2 transistor characteristic by including a gadolinium aluminate interlayer among other things.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Dec. 2021

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