Sentences with phrase «in dysprosium»

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The key rare earth mineral to be produced at Browns Range is «dysprosium», a principal ingredient in the manufacturing of large industrial magnets that are mostly used in the clean tech sector.

A decrease in Chinese production of dysprosium highlighted by research commissioned by Northern Minerals, has placed an increasing focus on the company's Browns Range rare earths project.

Now Pimenov and his team have succeeded in switching such excitations on and off with an electric field in a special material made of dysprosium, manganese and oxygen (DyMnO3).

The new alloy — a potential replacement for high - performance permanent magnets found in automobile engines and wind turbines — eliminates the use of one of the scarcest and costliest rare earth elements, dysprosium, and instead uses cerium, the most abundant rare earth.

Ames Laboratory scientists have used it to create a high - performance magnet that's similar in performance to traditional dysprosium - containing magnets and could make wind turbines less expensive to manufacture.

The strategy identified five rare earth metals (dysprosium, neodymium, terbium, europium, and yttrium) as well as indium as «most critical in the short term,» as measured by their importance to clean - energy technologies and the risk of supply disruption.

Some 16 million tons, translating to a 730 year supply of dysprosium (used in magnets in wind turbines and electric vehicles), a 420 year supply of terbium (used in lasers and semiconductors) and a nearly 800 year supply of yytrium (radar systems).

An electric motor in a Prius, for instance, requires 2 to 4 pounds of neodymium and dysprosium for its drive motor and lanthanum in its rechargeable battery.

China produces 95 % of the worlds supply of the rare earth metal, dysprosium, a key metal in magnets used in the drive motors for hybrid electric vehicles - up to 100 grams of dysprosium per hybrid car produced, according to a Wikipedia reference.