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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典
 yt·ter·bi·um /ɪˈtɝbiəm/
 鐿
From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典
 yt·ter·bi·um /ɪˈtɝbɪəm/ 名詞
From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary
 ytterbium
 鐿 YB
From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 Yt·ter·bi·um n.  Chem. A rare element of the boron group, sometimes associated with yttrium or other related elements, as in euxenite and gadolinite. Symbol Yb; provisional atomic weight 173.2.  Cf. Yttrium.
 Note: ☞ Ytterbium is associated with other rare elements, and probably has not been prepared in a pure state.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0
 ytterbium
      n : a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the
          lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite
          and xenotime [syn: Yb, atomic number 70]
From: Elements database 20001107
 ytterbium
 Symbol: Yb
 Atomic number: 70
 Atomic weight: 173.04
 Silvery metallic element of the lanthanoids. Seven natural isotopes and
 ten artificial isotopes are known.  Used in certain steels. Discovered by
 J.D.G. Marignac in 1878.