ytterbium

See also: Ytterbium

English

WOTD – 24 April 2017

Chemical element
Yb
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Etymology

A sample of ytterbium

A c. 1850 photograph of Swiss chemist Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817–1894), who discovered ytterbium in 1878

From Ytterby (“a town in Sweden”) +‎ -ium, the same etymological source as yttrium, terbium, and erbium.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈtɜː.bi.əm/
- Audio (UK) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈtɚ.bi.əm/, /ˈjə.tɚ.bi.əm/, /ˈjɪ.tɚ.bi.əm/, /jəˈtɚ.bi.əm/, /jɪˈtɚ.bi.əm/
Hyphenation: yt‧terb‧ium

Noun

ytterbium (usually uncountable, plural ytterbiums)

A metallic chemical element (symbol Yb) with an atomic number of 70.
- 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 39628609, page 6:
  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.
- 1991, John D. Corbett, “Coproportionation Routes to Reduced Lanthanide Halides”, in G[erd] Meyer and L[ester] R. Morss, editor, Synthesis of Lanthanide and Actinide Compounds (Topics in F-element Chemistry; 2), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 160:
  The lanthanides samarium, europium and ytterbium possess relatively stable and long-known dispositive states.
- 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, →ISBN, page 301:
  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.
- 2015, E. A. Abou Neel; V. Salih; J. C. Knowles, “Phosphate-based Glasses”, in Paul Ducheyne, editor, Comprehensive Biomaterials, volume I (Metallic, Ceramic and Polymeric Biomaterials), Amsterdam: Elsevier, →ISBN, page 289:
  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.
A single atom of this element.

Synonyms

aldebaranium (name proposed by Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach, who isolated ytterbium and lutetium from ytterbia around 1907, which was later rejected)
neoytterbia (former name)

Derived terms

diytterbium trioxide
ytterbia
ytterbic
ytterbium oxide
ytterbium trichloride

Related terms

erbium
neoytterbia
terbium
ytter
ytterbite
ytterite
yttria
yttrium

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: ytterbium (af)
Albanian: iterb
Arabic: يِتْرِبْيُوم‎ m (yitribyum)
Armenian: իտերբիում (iterbium)
Asturian: iterbiu (ast) m
Basque: iterbioa
Belarusian: ітэ́рбій m (itérbij)
Breton: iterbiom (br)
Bulgarian: ите́рбий m (itérbij)
Catalan: iterbi (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鐿／镱 (zh) (yì)
Cornish: yterbyum
Czech: ytterbium (cs)
Danish: ytterbium (da)
Dutch: ytterbium (nl) n
Esperanto: iterbio (eo)
Estonian: üterbium (et)
Faroese: ytterbium
Finnish: ytterbium (fi)
French: ytterbium (fr) m
Friulian: iterbi
Galician: iterbio (gl)
Georgian: იტერბიუმი (iṭerbiumi)
German: Ytterbium (de) n
Greek: υττέρβιο (el) n (yttérvio)
Hebrew: איטרביום‎ (he) (itérbiyum)
Hindi: श्वेतला (śvetlā)
Hungarian: itterbium (hu)
Icelandic: ytterbín (is)
Ido: yiterbo
Irish: itéirbiam
Italian: itterbio (it) m
Japanese: イッテルビウム (ja) (itterubiumu), 鐿 (ja)
Kashubian: éterb
Kazakh: иттербий (kk) (itterbii)
Khmer: អ៊ីទែប្យូម (iitɛɛbyuum)
Korean: 이테르븀 (ko) (itereubyum), 이터븀 (iteobyum)
Latin: ytterbium (la)
Latvian: iterbijs
Lithuanian: iterbis (lt)
Luxembourgish: Ytterbium
Macedonian: ите́рбиум m (itérbium)
Malay: iterbium
Maltese: itterbjum
Manx: ytterbium
Mongolian: иттерби (mn) (itterbi)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ytterbium n
Nynorsk: ytterbium (nn) n
Polish: iterb (pl) m
Portuguese: itérbio (pt) m
Romanian: yterbiu (ro) n
Russian: итте́рбий (ru) m (ittérbij)
Scottish Gaelic: itèirbiam
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: итербиjум, итербиj m
Roman: iterbij (sh), iterbijum m
Slovak: ytterbium n
Slovene: iterbij (sl)
Spanish: iterbio (es) m
Swedish: ytterbium (sv)
Tajik: иттербий (itterbiy)
Tamil: திகழ்வெள்ளீயம் (tikaḻveḷḷīyam)
Thai: อิตเทอร์เบียม (ìt-təə-bîiam)
Turkish: iterbiyum (tr)
Ukrainian: іте́рбій m (itérbij)
Uzbek: itterbiy (uz), иттербий (itterbiy)
Vietnamese: ytecbi
Volapük: lüterbin (vo)
Welsh: yterbiwm
West Frisian: ytterbium

Afrikaans

Chemical element
Yb
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Pronunciation

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Noun

ytterbium (uncountable)

ytterbium

Czech

Chemical element
Yb
Previous: tulium (Tm)
Next: lutetium (Lu)

Etymology

See the English entry ytterbium.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɪtɛrbɪum]
Rhymes: -ɛrbɪum
Hyphenation: yt‧ter‧bi‧um

Noun

ytterbium n

ytterbium (metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 70)

Declension

Declension of ytterbium

	singular	plural
nominative	ytterbium	ytterbia
genitive	ytterbia	ytterbií
dative	ytterbiu	ytterbiím
accusative	ytterbium	ytterbia
vocative	ytterbium	ytterbia
locative	ytterbiu	ytterbiích
instrumental	ytterbiem	ytterbii

Derived terms

ytterbiový

Danish

Noun

ytterbium

ytterbium
- 2006, Bogen Om Grundstofferne, Gyldendal Uddannelse, →ISBN, page 150:
  Men udover disse nyttige anvendelser bruges grundstoffet ytterbium kun ganske lidt.
  (please add an English translation of this quote)
- 1985, Fysisk tidsskrift
  ... målt i en serie af ytterbium isotoper^[sic] ...
- 1996, Forskningsrapport ... fra Statens husdyrbrugsforsøg
  Relative mængder af tørstof og ytterbium (Yb) efter vominkubation

Dutch

Chemical element
Yb
Previous: thulium (Tm)
Next: lutetium (Lu)

Etymology

Borrowed. Named after Ytterby in Sweden.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌiˈtɛr.bi.ʏm/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: yt‧ter‧bi‧um

Noun

ytterbium n (uncountable)

ytterbium

Related terms

yttrium

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English ytterbium).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈytːerbium/, [ˈyt̪ːe̞rˌbium]
Rhymes: -ium
Syllabification^(key): yt‧ter‧bi‧um

Noun

ytterbium

ytterbium

Declension

Inflection of ytterbium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		ytterbium	—
genitive		ytterbiumin	—
partitive		ytterbiumia	—
illative		ytterbiumiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		ytterbium	—
accusative	nom.	ytterbium	—
accusative	gen.	ytterbiumin	—
genitive		ytterbiumin	—
partitive		ytterbiumia	—
inessive		ytterbiumissa	—
elative		ytterbiumista	—
illative		ytterbiumiin	—
adessive		ytterbiumilla	—
ablative		ytterbiumilta	—
allative		ytterbiumille	—
essive		ytterbiumina	—
translative		ytterbiumiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		ytterbiumitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of ytterbium (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	ytterbiumini	ytterbiumimme
2nd person	ytterbiumisi	ytterbiuminne
3rd person	ytterbiuminsa

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /i.tɛʁ.bjɔm/

Noun

ytterbium m (uncountable)

ytterbium

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ytˈter.bi.um/, [ʏt̪ˈt̪ɛrbiʊ̃ˑ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /itˈter.bi.um/, [it̪ˈt̪ɛrbium]

Noun

ytterbium n (genitive ytterbiī); second declension

ytterbium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ytterbium	ytterbia
Genitive	ytterbiī	ytterbiōrum
Dative	ytterbiō	ytterbiīs
Accusative	ytterbium	ytterbia
Ablative	ytterbiō	ytterbiīs
Vocative	ytterbium	ytterbia

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Named after Ytterby in Sweden.

Noun

ytterbium n (definite singular ytterbiumet, uncountable)

ytterbium (chemical element; symbol Yb)

References

“ytterbium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Named after Ytterby in Sweden.

Noun

ytterbium n (definite singular ytterbiumet, uncountable)

ytterbium (chemical element; symbol Yb)

References

“ytterbium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

ytterbium

English

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Czech

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Danish

Noun

Dutch

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Noun

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Finnish

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French

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Latin

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Norwegian Bokmål

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