How to pronounce“ytterbium”in English
First up, the science bit. What are rare earths? Well “rare earths” refers to these 17 metallic elements - many of which you may never have heard of. Some have futuristic-sounding names like
“promethium” or “neodymium”. Others are barely pronounceable like praseodymium an ytterbium.
And they have certain properties that make them extremely useful..
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A metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 70.
“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.”
A single atom of this element.
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