a rare earth element discovered in 1885 with an atomic number of 60 in the Periodic Table of Elements It is a fairly common silvery metal that is used to make slightly purple glass envelopes for incandescent light bulbs, eye protection goggles for welding and glass blowing, laser rods, filters to color correct light for art displays, and lenses used by astronomers to calibrate spectrometers, optical instruments used for analyzing light
- "Ne" is the periodic symbolic for this rare metal which has extremely powerful magnetic properties It has the ability to create a magnetic field 10 times stronger than the conventional ferrite magnet and because of this characteristic, less material is needed, allowing for a more compact motor structure This material used in select tweeters and our Q-series woofers
a yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs in monazite and bastnasite in association with cerium and lanthanum and praseodymium
A neodymium magnet or NIB magnet (also, but less specifically, called a rare-earth magnet) is a powerful magnet made of a combination of neodymium, iron, and boron — Nd2Fe14B