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Fancymetal offers high purity (customizable) metal products, as well as oxides, product shapes, foils, plates, wires, tubes, rods, powders and a variety of custom shapes.
We also have other Holmium products:
Holmium
Holmium metal
Holmium sheet
Holmium oxide
Holmium sputtering target
Holmium oxide sputtering target
Holmium is a metal element with the chemical symbol Ho, atomic number 67, atomic weight 164.9, and the element name comes from the birthplace of the discoverer.
The melting point of holmium is 1474℃, the boiling point is 2600℃, and the relative density is 8.79g/cm³. At room temperature, holmium has a hexagonal close-packed crystal structure; it is ferromagnetic below -253℃.
Applications:
✔ Holmium compounds can be used as additives for new magnetic materials yttrium iron garnet and yttrium aluminum garnet
✔ Holmium-doped optical fibers can be used to make optical communication devices such as fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers, and fiber sensors
✔ Medical holmium laser lithotripsy is suitable for hard kidney stones, ureteral stones, and bladder stones that cannot be broken by extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy
Chemical properties:
Metallic holmium will slowly lose its luster in the air. Holmium can burn rapidly in the air to generate holmium oxide.
The silvery-white metal holmium has a very low electronegativity and can react with cold water and quickly react with hot water to generate holmium hydroxide and hydrogen.
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History:
In 1842, after the Swedish chemist (Mosander) separated erbium and terbium from yttrium, many chemists used spectral analysis to identify them and determined that they were not pure oxides of an element, which encouraged chemists to continue to separate them.
In 1878, (J.L.Soret) discovered holmium from the spectrum of erbium.
In 1879, the Swedish chemist (Per Teodor Cleve) separated holmium from erbium oxide minerals and identified them. Cliff named the element Holmia, after the Latin name of his birthplace, Stockholm.