Neodymium is element 60, a lanthanoid of the f block, in period 6. Its ground-state configuration is [Xe] 4f4 6s2, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 3.
It was discovered in 1895, by von Welsbach.
Name origin: the Greek neos didymos meaning 'new twin'.
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