Definitions for yttrium

yttrium yt·tri·um

Spelling: [ih-tree-uh m]
IPA: /ˈɪ tri əm/

Yttrium is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in yttrium (imrttuy).

Definitions for yttrium

noun

  1. a rare trivalent metallic element, found in gadolinite and other minerals. Symbol: Y; atomic weight: 88.905; atomic number: 39; specific gravity: 4.47.

Origin of yttrium

1815-25; New Latin, named after Ytterby. See ytterbia, -ium

Examples for yttrium

In yttrium, on the proto level, a 110 and b 63 both escape from the funnel, and behave as in scandium.

Erbium, a rare metal found along with yttrium, terbium, and other rare elements in some rare minerals.

yttrium was obtained by Whler in 1828, as a brittle, dark-grey metal, made from the chloride by the action of sodium.

Nitrogen has nothing new to show us, all its constituents having appeared in scandium and yttrium.

Its group members, scandium and yttrium, have the same form; we have not examined the fourth; the group is positive.

A rare metal found by Prof. Mosander, associated with erbium and yttrium in ordinary yttria.

One funnel of yttrium contains exactly the same number of atoms as is contained in a gaseous atom of nitrogen.

Word Value for yttrium
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12

Words with friends

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