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YTTERBIUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime
Synonyms:
atomic number 70; Yb; ytterbium
Classified under:
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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