Elements / 60
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Neodymium
Lanthanide · f-block · ring P
Neodymium is element 60, 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 | 7.01 g/cm³ | Terrain → |
|---|---|---|
| Melting point | 1,297 K · 1,024 °C | Terrain → |
| Boiling point | 3,347 K · 3,074 °C | Terrain → |
| Electronegativity | 1.14 | Terrain → |
| First ionization energy | 533 kJ/mol | Terrain → |
| Atomic weight | 144.242 u | Terrain → |
| Crustal abundance | 41.5 ppm | Terrain → |
| Discovered | 1841 | 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
- Glass colored with it looks lavender in daylight or incandescent light but pale blue under fluorescent light; Leo Moser tested it in 1927.
- Its name means new twin; its alloy with iron and boron makes the strongest permanent magnets known, used in headphones and EV motors.
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 Neodymium
Watch it fly into its seat, or raise the whole spiral into a landscape and see where it peaks.