| Neodymium
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| Name | Neodymium
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| Symbol | Nd
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| Atomic number | 60
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| Atomic mass | 144.24 amu
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| Normal state
| Solid
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| Classification
| Metallic
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| Crystal structure
| Hexagonal
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| Color
| silvery white with a yellowish tinge. Tarnishes when exposed to air.
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| Date of discovery
| 1885
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| Name of discoverer
| Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach
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| Name origin
| From the Greek neos, meaning new, and didymos, meaning twin.
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| Uses
| Used in ceramics to color glazes, in alloys for permanent magnets, for special lens with praseodymium. Also to produce bright purple glass and special glass that filters infrared radiation.
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| Obtained from
| Chief ores of Neodymium are monazite and bastnasite.
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