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Holmium doesn't get talked about nearly as much as neodymium or dysprosium, but it quietly does something none of its neighbors on the periodic table can match: no naturally occurring element has a stronger magnetic moment. That single fact, 10.6 μB per Ho3+ ion, is why holmium shows up in places you wouldn't expect a soft, silvery-white metal to matter much: inside high-field electromagnets, in kidney stone lasers, and lately in nuclear reactor control rods and even early quantum computing r …