noun
Origin: ModL, contr. < neoytterbium, so named (1907) by its discoverer, G. Urbain (see lutetium) < ytterbia, ytterbium oxide, name coined (1878) by J.-C. G. de Marignac, Swiss chemist who isolated it, after Ytterby: see erbium
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noun Symbol Yb
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Origin: After Ytterby, a town in Sweden
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