How to Use praseodymium in a Sentence

praseodymium

noun

• Next door to the oven, more than 150 bags of neodymium and praseodymium and cerium sat on a warehouse floor to be shipped to customers around the world.
  — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 11 July 2018
• The inside has a magnet made with neodymium and praseodymium.
  — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 11 July 2018
• Lynas is the world’s second largest producer of neodymium (Nd) and praseodymium (Pr), both light rare earths.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2021
• Some of that neodymium can be replaced by another light rare earth, praseodymium (Pr).
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 14 May 2021
• Neodymium and praseodymium, used in permanent magnets, make up a smaller share.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 15 July 2021
• Neodymium and praseodymium combine to make powerful magnets used in aircraft, headphones and much more.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• China processes more than half of the world’s cobalt, lithium, and the class of rare-earth elements (REEs) that includes neodymium, dysprosium, praseodymium, and terbium . . .
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Mar. 2022
• NdPr is short for neodymium-praseodymium, an alloy of two light rare earth elements that’s used in permanent magnets.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 26 July 2021
• The remainder are mostly produced by Japan, which sources most of its neodymium and praseodymium from the Australian rare earth giant Lynas, the world’s largest miner and processor of rare earths outside of China.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 14 May 2021
• Greenland has some of the biggest deposits of neodymium, dysprosium, terbium, praseodymium, and uranium.
  — David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2019
• The problem is that while demand for praseodymium and neodymium is high there is limited demand for other elements which are mined in conjunction, such as cerium and lanthanum.
  — Tim Treadgold, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
• Lynas is now the second-biggest producer globally of neodymium-praseodymium, two rare earths crucial for making high-strength magnets, with about a quarter of the global market.
  — Washington Post, 31 May 2019
• The mine’s top products are neodymium and praseodymium, or NdPr, two elements which are used together to make the lightweight magnets that help power electric cars and wind turbines and are found in electronics such as laptop hard drives.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2019
• Neodymium, dysprosium, and praseodymium are used in combination to create the components of an electric engine.
  — Nelson Ching, National Geographic, 10 June 2016
• Even the more prized magnetic elements such as neodymium, dysprosium, praseodymium and samarium are humdrum enough that Apple Inc. uses rare-earth magnets to make its power cables stick in place.
  — Washington Post, 31 May 2019
• 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
• The iPhone contains a chorus of eight rare earth elements: neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, terbium, gadolinium, europium, lanthanum, and yttrium.
  — Edward Humes, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2016
• The transition to renewable energy is also fueling global demand for specific natural resources such as neodymium and praseodymium, rare earth metals found in relative abundance in the Arctic.
  — Daria Solovieva, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2021
• In fact, Arafura has signed deals with two Chinese companies that together will buy 40% of its annual production of neodymium-praseodymium (NdPr) oxide, a critical material for industrial magnets.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Sep 2024