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Definition: Ytterbium |
YtterbiumNoun1. A soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Ytterbium \Yt*ter"bi*um\, noun. [New Latin expression, from Ytterby, in Sweden. See Erbium.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | Chemical element:atomic number 70. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Ytterbium. An element of the rare earth family of metals. It has the atomic symbol Yb, atomic number 70, and atomic weight 173. Ytterbium has been used in lasers and as a portable X-ray source. (references) |
Mining | A rare-earth element that has a bright silvery luster, is soft, malleable and quite ductile. Symbol, Yb. Occurs with other rare-earths in a number of rare minerals. Commercially recovered from monazite sand. Has a possible use in improving the mechanical properties of stainless steel;few other uses have been found. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This element is named after the Swedish town of Ytterby.
External Link:
Los Alamos National Laboratory's Chemistry Division: Periodic Table - Ytterbium
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ytterbium."
Synonym: YtterbiumSynonym: atomic number 70 (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ytterbium |
| English words defined with "ytterbium": Gadolinia ♦ Ytterbic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ytterbium" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (ytterbium), Dutch (ytterbium), French (ytterbium, yttrium), German (ytterbium), Swedish (ytterbium). |
| "Ytterbium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ytterbium" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ytterbium | 15 |
toxic ytterbium | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ytterbium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | ytterbium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | iterbium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الايتربيوم عنصر فلزي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | итербий. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 镱, 鐿 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | yterbium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ytterbium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ytterbium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | iterbio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ytterbium (yttrium). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ytterbium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υττέρβιο, υττερβίο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | itterbium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | itterbio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | イタルタス通信 (aitchbone, first-person novel, idea, idiom, it, ITAR-TASS News Agency, itch, Yippie, yttrium). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | イッテル"ウ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ytterbiumay itérbio. (various references) иттербий. (various references) iterbijum. (various references) iterbio. (various references) ytterbium. (various references) iterbiyum. (various references) ітербій. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ytterbium": ytterbiums. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ytterbium" (pronounced 'Yt*ter"bi*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-m-r-t-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: buttery, imbrute, terbium, tribute, yttrium. | |
-3 letters: bitter, butter, erbium, imbrue, iterum, mutter, timber, timbre, turbit, ubiety. | |
-4 letters: biter, bitty, britt, bruit, brume, brute, buret, butte, butty, buyer, imbue, merit, miter, mitre, muter, rebut, rebuy, remit, rutty, timer, titer, titre, tribe, trite, tuber, tuyer, umber, uteri, utter. | |
-5 letters: berm, bier, bite, bitt, brie, brim, brit. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-m-r-t-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: ytterbiums. | |
+3 letters: turbidimetry. | |
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