What is holmium used for?

Answer 1

Holmium is a rare earth chemical element. It has a very high magnetic strength and hence is used in the strongest of magnets. It also absorbs neutrons and hence is used in the control rods of nuclear power stations.

Answer 2

Because of its magnetic properties, holmium has been used to create the strongest artificially-generated magnetic fields when placed within high-strength magnets as a magnetic pole piece (also called a magnetic flux concentrator). Since it can absorb nuclear fission-bred neutrons, the element is also used in nuclear control rods. Other commercial applications of the element abound:

* It is used in yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) and yttrium-lanthanum-fluoride (YLF) solid state lasers found in microwave equipment (which are in turn found in a variety of medical and dental settings). * It is used as a yellow or red glass coloring. * Holmium-containing glass has been used as a calibration standard for UV/visible spectrophotometers * Holmium is one of the colorants used for cubic zirconia for use in jewelry, providing a dichroic color in peach or yellow, depending on the lighting source. * Holmium may be used as the active ion in some solid state lasers. * The radioactive but long-lived Ho-166m1 is used in calibration of gamma ray spectrometers.

Answer 3

Holmium is a chemical element that belongs to the rare earth group of the Periodic Table of elements.

Answer 4

Holmium has specific magnetic properties so it is used mainly for flux concentrators for high magnetic fields and in alloys for making magnets.

Answer 5

Holmium, its oxide, and its salts have no commercial uses.

Answer 6

It has a very high magnetic strength, highest of any other element, and is also an excellent neutron absorber.

Answer 7

They are both elements.