Dysprosium - ASCII Periodic Table of the Elements

ASCII PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS

  Dy

Relative atomic mass: 162.500 +- 0.001

English: Dysprosium
French: Dysprosium
Croatian: Disprozij
German: Dysprosium
Italian: Disprosio
Spanish: Disprosio

Atomic number: 66
Group numbers: 3
Period: 6
Standard state (20 ^oC): solid

Discovery: 1886 Paul-Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (FR)

Dysprosium was discovered by Paul-Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (FR) in 1886. The origin of the name comes from the Greek word dysprositos meaning hard to obtain. It is a soft, lustrous, silvery metal that reacts with oxygen and water. Dysprosium is a reductant and dissolves in acids. Metal ignites and burns readily. Dysprosium is usually found with erbium, holmium and other rare earths in some minerals such as monazite sand. Dysprosium uses are limited to the experimental and esoteric. Some isotopes of dysprosium are effective absorbers of thermal neutrons and are being considered for use in the control rods in nuclear reactors. The price of 99.9 % pure dysprosium ingot is 201.10 € for 100 g.

Electronic configuration: [Xe] 4f¹⁰ 6s²
Formal oxidation number: +3
Atomic radius: 175.2 pm

Electronegativities: 1.22
Thermal conductivity: 10.7 W/(m K)
Electrical resistivity (20 ^oC): 57 microOhm cm

Melting point: 1412 ^oC
Boiling point: 2567 ^oC

Heat of fusion: 17.2 kJ/mol
Heat of vaporization: 293 kJ/mol
Heat of atomization: 293.05 kJ/mol