How to Use terbium in a Sentence

terbium

noun
  • So where can American firms source dysprosium and terbium—and fast?
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 June 2025
  • The same goes for the use of europium and terbium in lighting applications.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 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
  • Nearly two-thirds of dysprosium and terbium, two key rare-earth elements, come from northern Myanmar.
    — Dan Swift, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The team positioned a metal tip a few atoms wide less than 1 nanometer above organic molecules that contained iron and terbium atoms.
    — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 1 June 2023
  • Dysprosium and terbium, for example, are found in smartphones’ vibration units.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Neodymium, for example, is used to make magnets found in smartphone speakers and haptic feedback devices, while terbium is used to make solid state hard drives.
    — Klint Finley, WIRED, 17 June 2019
  • Four of those elements are named in tribute to the village (ytterbium, erbium, terbium, yttrium).
    — Mark Lorch, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2016
  • 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
  • Greenland has some of the biggest deposits of neodymium, dysprosium, terbium, praseodymium, and uranium.
    — David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • During the last 34 million years, the fossils slowly absorbed yttrium, europium, terbium, and dysprosium from the fluid trapped in the mud.
    — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Last year, Myanmar was believed to be the world’s largest exporter of certain heavy rare earths, including dysprosium and terbium, which are used in items like electric vehicles and wind turbines.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Europium and terbium, for example, are needed to make HD screens; zinc and tin help make touch-responsive surfaces; and lithium is used in batteries — just to name a few.
    — Rachel Ramirez and Clare Duffy, CNN, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Rare earth elements in high demand for superior magnets and electronics – neodymium, praseodymium, terbium and dysprosium – are all present in varying amounts in these areas.
    — Scott L. Montgomery, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Rare earth elements, such as lanthanum, neodymium and terbium, are critical for helping the world break its long, destructive relationship with planet-heating fossil fuels.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
  • In fact, China controls practically 100% of global supply of dysprosium and terbium and added both to export controls on April 4.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 June 2025
  • Advertisement But the world’s two largest economies and geopolitical rivals can’t settle for conversations around terbium and H100 chips.
    — Christopher Smart, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Yttrium and terbium have critical military uses, including in targeting devices.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 11 July 2025
  • Elements now suffuse technology like spices in an elaborate dish — iPhones, for instance, contain a dash of indium, a sprinkling of terbium and hints of some 70 other elements.
    — Xiaozhi Lim, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2020
  • This is good news for large wind turbine manufacturers that rely on magnet generators made from neodymium and dysprosium, among other rare-earth elements like praseodymium (Pr) and terbium (Tb).
    — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2019
  • In addition, Beijing also unveiled export controls on seven types of rare-earth minerals to the US, including samarium, gadolinium and terbium.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Those restrictions included terbium, 9 grams of which is typically used in a single-motor EV, AlixPartners data showed.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 28 May 2025
  • Sourcing solutions Rare earth elements like lanthanum, neodymium and terbium are used in powering several clean energy technologies, including electric vehicles and wind turbines.
    — Devika Rao, theweek, 1 Oct. 2024
  • NdFeB magnets containing the heavy rare earth dysprosium and sometimes terbium are particularly useful, because the presence of heavy rare earths improves the magnet’s ability to withstand high temperatures.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 14 May 2021
  • China's Ministry of Commerce said seven categories of medium and heavy rare earths, including samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium and yttrium-related items would be on this list.
    — John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Researchers at the University of Utah recently discovered that the non-toxic material composed of three chemical elements—calcium, cobalt and terbium—generates thermoelectric energy from waste heat.
    — Kristen A. Schmitt, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2017
  • These materials include aluminum, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, electrical steel, fluorine, gallium, iridium, lithium, magnesium, graphite, neodymium, nickel, platinum, praseodymium, silicon, silicon carbide and terbium.
    — Sahit Muja, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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