How to Use terbium in a Sentence

terbium

noun

• The same goes for the use of europium and terbium in lighting applications.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022
• Yet the mine's role at the center of the U.S.-China faceoff over 17 elements with names such as neodymium, terbium and europium is not without irony.
  — David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2019
• Yet the mine’s role at the center of the U.S.-China faceoff over 17 elements with names such as neodymium, terbium and europium is not without irony.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 10 June 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Heavy REEs—those with high atomic numbers, including dysprosium, yttrium, and terbium—are most commonly extracted from masses of clay formed through eons of weathering of igneous rocks such as granite.
  — Bydennis Normile, science.org, 1 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Joshua Zide, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Delaware, studies rare earth elements, particularly terbium, which is part of the chemical element combination for Saini’s discovery.
  — Kristen A. Schmitt, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2017

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024