Explore Terbium through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like metal. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Terbium in a sentence
Terbium meaning
A metallic chemical element (symbol Tb) with an atomic number of 65: a soft, silvery-white, rare earth metal that is malleable and ductile.
Synonyms of Terbium
Using Terbium
- The main meaning on this page is: A metallic chemical element (symbol Tb) with an atomic number of 65: a soft, silvery-white, rare earth metal that is malleable and ductile.
- Useful related words include: tb, atomic number 65, metallic element, metal.
- In the example corpus, terbium often appears in combinations such as: and terbium, of terbium, terbium is.
Context around Terbium
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Terbium
- In this selection, "terbium" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, concentrate, single, containing, occur, name and ions stand out and add context to how "terbium" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include amounts of terbium occur in and analogy with terbium see elution. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "terbium" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with terbium
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Terbium has no known biological role. (6 words)
Sodium terbium borate is used in solid state devices. (9 words)
Terbium is separated as a double salt with ammonium nitrate by crystallization. (12 words)
Thereafter, whenever other rare earths were teased apart from this mixture, whichever fraction gave the brown oxide retained the terbium name, until at last, the brown oxide of terbium was obtained in pure form. (34 words)
Small amounts of terbium occur in bastnäsite and monazite; when these are processed by solvent extraction to recover the valuable heavy lanthanides as samarium europium gadolinium concentrate, terbium is recovered therein. (31 words)
The grade range for the exploration target comprises a notable proportion of magnet REE (neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium), which has the potential to be competitive with other REE projects globally. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Small amounts of terbium occur in bastnäsite and monazite; when these are processed by solvent extraction to recover the valuable heavy lanthanides as samarium europium gadolinium concentrate, terbium is recovered therein.
Thereafter, whenever other rare earths were teased apart from this mixture, whichever fraction gave the brown oxide retained the terbium name, until at last, the brown oxide of terbium was obtained in pure form.
Because of their unique properties, these pairs are blind to the single terbium ions nearby that would cause them to lose their quantum information.
China currently dominates the supply of rare earth components, particularly those containing terbium and dysprosium, accounting for nearly 90% of the world's rare earth permanent magnets.
For its long-term outlook, Mkango continues to prioritize the development of sustainable rare earth recycling and manufacturing to meet accelerating global demand for neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium.
The grade range for the exploration target comprises a notable proportion of magnet REE (neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium), which has the potential to be competitive with other REE projects globally.
There are very strong positive correlations between neodymium and praseodymium, samarium, terbium, gadolinium and dysprosium suggesting a favourable geological environment for rare earth elements.
It is now thought that workers using double sodium or potassium sulfates to remove ceria from yttria inadvertently lost the terbium into the ceria-containing precipitate.
It is relatively stable in air as compared to other lanthanides. citation Terbium exists in two crystal allotropes with a transformation temperature of 1289 °C between them.
Production Crushed terbium-containing minerals are treated with hot concentrated sulfuric acid to produce water-soluble sulfates of rare earths.
Sodium terbium borate is used in solid state devices.
Terbium doped gadolinium oxysulfide (Gd 2 O 2 S: Tb) at the phosphor layer converts the X-rays released from the source into light.
Terbium easily oxidizes, and is therefore used in its elemental form specifically for research.
Terbium has no known biological role.
Terbium(II) halogenides are obtained by annealing Tb(III) halogenides in presence of metallic Tb in tantalum containers.
Terbium is separated as a double salt with ammonium nitrate by crystallization.
Terfenol-D is a terbium alloy that expands or contracts in the presence of a magnetic field.
The brilliant fluorescence allows terbium to be used as a probe in biochemistry, where it somewhat resembles calcium in its behavior.
The chromatographic separation behavior was then unknown for the element 97, but was anticipated by analogy with terbium (see elution curves).
The other heavier lanthanides – terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, and ytterbium – become ferromagnetic at much lower temperatures.
Common combinations with terbium
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and terbium 3×
- of terbium 2×
- terbium is 2×
- the terbium 2×
- terbium was 2×
- with terbium 2×