Welcome To Dysprosium Traditional Cache
BigChiefS4: These have served their purpose. Time for something new.
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Welcome To Dysprosium
A series of winter-friendly caches by BigChiefS4 that will help you on your journey to completing two different challenges:
Boreal Walker's Periodic Table of Elements Challenge
Bobcam's Challenge of the Century: Welcome To…
Dysprosium is a chemical element with the symbol Dy and atomic number 66. It is a rare earth element with a metallic silver luster. Dysprosium is never found in nature as a free element, though it is found in various minerals, such as xenotime. Naturally occurring dysprosium is composed of 7 isotopes, the most abundant of which is 164Dy.
Dysprosium was first identified in 1886 by Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, but was not isolated in pure form until the development of ion exchange techniques in the 1950s. Dysprosium is used for its high thermal neutron absorption cross-section in making control rods in nuclear reactors, for its high magnetic susceptibility in data storage applications, and as a component of Terfenol-D. Soluble dysprosium salts are mildly toxic, while the insoluble salts are considered non-toxic.
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