Yttrium dendrites and cube.FromYtterby -ium Ytterby , Sweden, the same etymological source asterbium erbium ytterbium
yttrium (usuallyuncountable ,plural yttriums
A silvery metallic chemical element with anatomic number of 39, mainly found in combination withlanthanide elements inrare earth minerals .Alternative form: Y ( symbol ) yttrium (uncountable
yttrium IPA (key ) : [ˈɪtrɪjum] Hyphenation:yt‧t‧rium yttrium n
yttrium ( metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 39 ) Declension ofyttrium (semisoft neuter foreign )
FromSwedish Ytterby -ium
yttrium n singular definite yttriummet not used in plural form )
yttrium Borrowed fromNew Latin yttrium Swedish yttrium Ytterby in Sweden. The first mention is from the late eighteenth century, which in fact referred togadolinite , a mineral that was at the time misidentified as an element.
IPA (key ) : /ˈi.tri.ʏm/ Hyphenation:yt‧tri‧um yttrium n uncountable nodiminutive )
yttrium [from mid 19th c.] Internationalism (seeEnglish yttrium
IPA (key ) : /ˈyt(ː)rium/ ,[ˈyt̪.(t̪)rium] Rhymes:-yt(ː)rium Syllabification(key ) :ytt‧ri‧um Hyphenation(key ) :ytt‧ri‧um yttrium
yttrium yttrium m uncountable
yttrium yttrium n genitive yttriī second declension
yttrium Second-declension noun (neuter).
yttrium n uncountable
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