"ytterbium" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɪˈtɜː.bi.əm/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ɪˈtɚ.bi.əm/ [General-American], /ˈjə.tɚ.bi.əm/ [General-American], /ˈjɪ.tɚ.bi.əm/ [General-American], /jəˈtɚ.bi.əm/ [General-American], /jɪˈtɚ.bi.əm/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ytterbium.wav Forms: ytterbiums [plural]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)biəm Etymology: Ytterby + -ium, named after Ytterby, Sweden, the same etymological source as yttrium, terbium, and erbium. Etymology templates: {{circa2|1850|short=yes}} c. 1850, {{suffix|en|Ytterby|ium}} Ytterby + -ium Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} ytterbium (usually uncountable, plural ytterbiums)
  1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Yb) with an atomic number of 70. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Lanthanide series chemical elements Translations (chemical element): ytterbium (Afrikaans), iterb (Albanian), يِتْرِبْيُوم (yitribyum) [masculine] (Arabic), իտերբիում (iterbium) (Armenian), iterbiu [masculine] (Asturian), iterbioa (Basque), ітэ́рбій (itérbij) [masculine] (Belarusian), iterbiom (Breton), ите́рбий (itérbij) [masculine] (Bulgarian), iterbi (Catalan), (Chinese Mandarin), (yì) (Chinese Mandarin), yterbyum (Cornish), ytterbium (Czech), ytterbium (Danish), ytterbium [neuter] (Dutch), iterbio (Esperanto), üterbium (Estonian), ytterbium (Faroese), ytterbium (Finnish), ytterbium [masculine] (French), iterbi (Friulian), iterbio (Galician), იტერბიუმი (iṭerbiumi) (Georgian), Ytterbium [neuter] (German), υττέρβιο (yttérvio) [neuter] (Greek), איטרביום (itérbiyum) (Hebrew), श्वेतला (śvetlā) (Hindi), itterbium (Hungarian), ytterbín (Icelandic), yiterbo (Ido), itéirbiam (Irish), itterbio [masculine] (Italian), イッテルビウム (itterubiumu) (Japanese), (Japanese), éterb (Kashubian), иттербий (itterbii) (Kazakh), អ៊ីទែប្យូម (iitɛɛbyuum) (Khmer), 이테르븀 (itereubyum) (Korean), 이터븀 (iteobyum) (Korean), ytterbium (Latin), iterbijs (Latvian), iterbis (Lithuanian), Ytterbium (Luxembourgish), ите́рбиум (itérbium) [masculine] (Macedonian), iterbium (Malay), itterbjum (Maltese), ytterbium (Manx), иттерби (itterbi) (Mongolian), ytterbium [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), ytterbium [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), iterb [masculine] (Polish), itérbio [masculine] (Portuguese), yterbiu [neuter] (Romanian), итте́рбий (ittérbij) [masculine] (Russian), itèirbiam (Scottish Gaelic), итербиjум [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), итербиj [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), iterbij [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), iterbijum [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ytterbium [neuter] (Slovak), iterbij (Slovene), iterbio [masculine] (Spanish), ytterbium (Swedish), иттербий (itterbiy) (Tajik), திகழ்வெள்ளீயம் (tikaḻveḷḷīyam) (Tamil), อิตเทอร์เบียม (ìt-təə-bîiam) (Thai), iterbiyum (Turkish), іте́рбій (itérbij) [masculine] (Ukrainian), itterbiy (Uzbek), иттербий (itterbiy) (Uzbek), ytecbi (Vietnamese), lüterbin (Volapük), yterbiwm (Welsh), ytterbium (West Frisian)
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  2. A single atom of this element. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-ytterbium-en-noun-4PyrrqR0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: aldebaranium (alt: name proposed by Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach, who isolated ytterbium and lutetium from ytterbia around 1907, which was later rejected), neoytterbia (english: former name) Derived forms: diytterbium trioxide, ytterbia, ytterbic, ytterbium oxide, ytterbium trichloride Related terms: erbium, neoytterbia, terbium, ytter, ytterbite, ytterite, yttria, yttrium

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    }
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    },
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    },
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      "word": "ytter"
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      "word": "ytterbite"
    },
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      "word": "ytterite"
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          "ref": "1883, H[enry] Carrington Bolton, “List of New Elements Announced since 1877”, in An Account of the Progress in Chemistry in the Year 1882. … From the Smithsonian Report for 1882, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 6",
          "text": "At a meeting of the Russian Chemical Society held October 20, 1881 (and reported in the Bulletin de la Société Chimique de Paris, for August, 1882), Mendelejeff [Dmitri Mendeleev], the distinguished author of the periodic law, remarked that only two of the recently announced elements—scandium and ytterbium—had been satisfactorily confirmed. These have been obtained in a pure state by [Lars Fredrik] Nilson, and neither of them has absorption spectra.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, John D. Corbett, “Coproportionation Routes to Reduced Lanthanide Halides”, in G[erd] Meyer, L[ester] R. Morss, editors, Synthesis of Lanthanide and Actinide Compounds (Topics in F-element Chemistry; 2), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 160",
          "text": "The lanthanides samarium, europium and ytterbium possess relatively stable and long-known dispositive states.",
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Robert E. Krebs, “Guide to the Elements”, in The History and Use of Our Earth's Chemical Elements: A Reference Guide, 2nd edition, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, page 301",
          "text": "Ytterbium is a silvery, soft, malleable, and ductile metal with a lustrous metallic shine. It is slightly reactive in air or water at room temperatures. Ytterbium is located next to last of the rare-earths in the lanthanide series.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, E. A. Abou Neel, V. Salih, J. C. Knowles, “Phosphate-based Glasses”, in Paul Ducheyne, editor, Comprehensive Biomaterials, volumes I (Metallic, Ceramic and Polymeric Biomaterials), Amsterdam: Elsevier, page 289",
          "text": "Microstructural optical fibers have been developed that have utilized phosphate-based glasses due to their ability to solubilize rare earth components such as ytterbium, which give the fibers their high light absorption and amplification per unit length.",
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      "glosses": [
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        "General-American"
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      "alt": "name proposed by Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach, who isolated ytterbium and lutetium from ytterbia around 1907, which was later rejected",
      "word": "aldebaranium"
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      "sense": "chemical element",
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      "sense": "chemical element",
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      "sense": "chemical element",
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      "roman": "itérbij",
      "sense": "chemical element",
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      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "iterbiom"
    },
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "itérbij",
      "sense": "chemical element",
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        "masculine"
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    {
      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "chemical element",
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    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "鐿"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yì",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "镱"
    },
    {
      "code": "kw",
      "lang": "Cornish",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "yterbyum"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "ytterbium"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "ytterbium"
    },
    {
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      "sense": "chemical element",
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      ],
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "iterbio"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "üterbium"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "ytterbium"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "ytterbium"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ytterbium"
    },
    {
      "code": "fur",
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "iterbi"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "iterbio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "iṭerbiumi",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "იტერბიუმი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Ytterbium"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "yttérvio",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "υττέρβιο"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
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      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "איטרביום"
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      "code": "hi",
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      "roman": "śvetlā",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "श्वेतला"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "itterbium"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "ytterbín"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "yiterbo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "itéirbiam"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "itterbio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
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      "sense": "chemical element",
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    },
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      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "鐿"
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      "sense": "chemical element",
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      "code": "kk",
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      "roman": "itterbii",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "иттербий"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "iitɛɛbyuum",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "អ៊ីទែប្យូម"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "itereubyum",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "이테르븀"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "iteobyum",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "이터븀"
    },
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      "word": "ytterbium"
    },
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      "code": "lv",
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      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "iterbijs"
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      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "iterbis"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "Ytterbium"
    },
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "itérbium",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "ите́рбиум"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "iterbium"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "itterbjum"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "ytterbium"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "itterbi",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "иттерби"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ytterbium"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ytterbium"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "iterb"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "itérbio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "yterbiu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ittérbij",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "итте́рбий"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "itèirbiam"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "итербиjум"
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    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "итербиj"
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    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
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    },
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "iterbijum"
    },
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      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ytterbium"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "iterbij"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "iterbio"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "ytterbium"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "itterbiy",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "иттербий"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "tikaḻveḷḷīyam",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "திகழ்வெள்ளீயம்"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "ìt-təə-bîiam",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "อิตเทอร์เบียม"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "iterbiyum"
    },
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "itérbij",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "іте́рбій"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "itterbiy"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "roman": "itterbiy",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "иттербий"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "ytecbi"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "lüterbin"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "yterbiwm"
    },
    {
      "code": "fy",
      "lang": "West Frisian",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "ytterbium"
    }
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    "Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac",
    "Ytterby"
  ],
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}

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