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Ytterbium , Yb
Ytterbium is a chemical element with the symbol Yb and atomic number 70. A soft silvery metallic element, ytterbium is a rare earth of the lanthanide series and is found in the minerals gadolinite, monazite, and xenotime. The element is sometimes associated with yttrium or other related elements and is used in certain steels. Natural ytterbium is a mix of seven stable isotopes.
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Ytterbium Chloride
YbF3 -60 mesh (melted) 99.9% Pure
Ytterbium Fluoride
YbN -60 mesh 99.9% Pure
Ytterbium Nitride
Yb2S3 5-10 um 99.9% Pure
Ytterbium Sulphide
Yb Rod 6.35mm diameter 99.9% pure
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Yb Rod 12.7mm diameter 99.9% pure
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Yb sheet Thickness 0.38mm (0.015")
Yb sheet Thickness 0.5mm (0.020")
Yb sheet Thickness 0.76mm (0.030")
Yb sheet Thickness 1.0mm (0.040")
Ytterbium Yb,
Purity TREM 99.9%, Yb/TREM 99.99%
Ytterbium oxide Yb2O3,
Purity TREO 99.5%, Yb2O3/TREO 99.99%
Ytterbium oxide Yb2O3,
Purity TREO 99.9%, Yb2O3/TREO 99.99%
Ytterbium-Lutetium oxide Yb-Lu2O3,
Available in various ratios wt% or at%, Purity 99.9%
Ytterbium-Yttrium oxide Yb-Y2O3,
Available in various ratios wt% or at%, Purity 99.9%
Yttrium Aluminium oxide Y3Al5O12
Purity 99.9%+
Ytterbium-Yttrium Aluminium oxide Yb:Y3Al5O12,
Available in various ratios wt% or at%, Purity 99.9%
Ytterbium-Lutetium Aluminium oxide Yb:Lu3Al5O12,
Available in various ratios wt% or at%, Purity 99.9%
Ytterbium-Aluminium oxide Yb:Al2O3,
Available in various ratios wt% or at%, Purity 99.9%
Ytterbium-Lutetium oxide-Scandium oxide Yb-Lu2O3-Sc2O3,
Available in various ratios wt% or at%, Purity 99.9%
Ytterbium-Manganese-Bismuth YbMnBi,
Available in various ratios wt% or at%, Purity 99.9%
Yttrium Barium Copper oxide YBa2Cu3O7,
Purity 99.99%
Yb sheet Thickness 0.1mm (0.004")
Yb sheet Thickness 0.2mm (0.008")
Yb2O3 TRG 76.2mm dia. x 3.18mm Tk 99.95% Pure Ytterbium oxide
Ytterbium is a soft, malleable and rather ductile element that exhibits a bright silvery luster. A rare earth element, it is easily attacked and dissolved by mineral acids, slowly reacts with water, and oxidizes in air.
Ytterbium has three allotropes which are called alpha, beta and gamma and whose transformation points are at −13 °C and 795 °C. The beta form exists at room temperature and has a face-centered crystal structure while the high-temperature gamma form has a body-centered crystal structure.
Normally, the beta form has a metallic-like electrical conductivity, but becomes a semiconductor when exposed to around 16,000 atm (1.6 GPa). Its electrical resistivity is tenfold larger at about 39,000 atm (3.9 GPa) but then drops dramatically, to around 10% of its room temperature resistivity value, at 40,000 atm (4 GPa).
Ytterbium is one of the lanthanides that is able to become divalent. Like the other potentially divalent lanthanides, samarium and europium, it is capable of being extracted into mercury by the use of sodium amalgam, which made it one of the easier lanthanides to purify using classical techniques. However, this divalency was not discovered until the 20th century.