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Dysprosium
Lanthanide · f-block · ring P
Dysprosium is element 66, a lanthanide. It is one of the lanthanides, which the spiral keeps in line on ring P instead of exiling them to a strip below the table.
Properties
| Density | 8.54 g/cm³ | Terrain → |
|---|---|---|
| Melting point | 1,680 K · 1,407 °C | Terrain → |
| Boiling point | 2,840 K · 2,567 °C | Terrain → |
| Electronegativity | 1.22 | Terrain → |
| First ionization energy | 573 kJ/mol | Terrain → |
| Atomic weight | 162.5 u | Terrain → |
| Crustal abundance | 5.2 ppm | Terrain → |
| Discovered | 1886 | Terrain → |
Values from open reference data; see sources. "Terrain" opens that property as a 3D landscape across the whole spiral.
Two things you might not know
- Lecoq de Boisbaudran identified it in 1886; isolating it took him more than 30 attempts at his procedure.
- Its name is Greek for hard to get; it goes into the magnets of electric vehicle motors and wind turbines.
Checked against en.wikipedia.org.
Lanthanides
- La Lanthanum
- Ce Cerium
- Pr Praseodymium
- Nd Neodymium
- Pm Promethium
- Sm Samarium
- Eu Europium
- Gd Gadolinium
- Tb Terbium
- Dy Dysprosium
- Ho Holmium
- Er Erbium
- Tm Thulium
- Yb Ytterbium
Ring P (period 6)
Play with Dysprosium
Watch it fly into its seat, or raise the whole spiral into a landscape and see where it peaks.