April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
5h 20m
English

Ytterbium brings up the rear in Ytterby’s Quartet,
It boasts the shortest liquid range of any metal yet.
Improves the strength of stainless steel,
it-terb-ee-um
FOURTEENTH IN THE LANTHANOID SERIES
Ytterbium (pronounced it-terb-ee-um) was first isolated in 1878. It completed the quartet of elements whose collective origin went back to the small Swedish village of Ytterby. Ytterbium took its name from the village, as did the other three elements whose discoveries ...