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the magnet so strong it can shatter fingers and erase credit cards from across the room
means A silvery-white rare-earth metal, element 60, prized for forging the strongest permanent magnets in common use, found in everything from headphones to wind turbines.
from From Greek 'neos' (new) plus 'didymos' (twin), literally 'new twin.' The story starts with a substance chemists once called 'didymium' — a supposed element named for being a 'twin' that always tagged along with lanthanum. In the late 19th century it was found to be no single element at all, but a pair masquerading as one. Split apart, it yielded 'praseodymium' (green twin) and 'neodymium' (new twin) — a twin that turned out to be twins.
- name origin
- Greek for new twin, split from a fake element
- crushing force
- lifts over a thousand times its own weight
- green flash
- colors welding goggles and faux-emerald glass
- laser heart
- powers the beams in industrial cutters
- China grip
- controls most of the world's supply