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YTTERBIUM

• YTTERBIUM (noun)
The noun YTTERBIUM has 1 sense:

1. a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime

Familiarity information: YTTERBIUM used as a noun is very rare.

• YTTERBIUM (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

atomic number 70; Yb; ytterbium

Hypernyms ("ytterbium" is a kind of...):

metal; metallic element (any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.)

Holonyms ("ytterbium" is a substance of...):

gadolinite; ytterbite (a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium)

monazite (a reddish-brown mineral containing rare earth metals; an important source of thorium and cerium)

xenotime (a brown-to-yellow mineral that is a phosphate of yttrium in crystalline form)

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