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Yttrium in a sentence
Yttrium meaning
A silvery metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 39, mainly found in combination with lanthanide elements in rare earth minerals.
Synonyms of Yttrium
Using Yttrium
- The main meaning on this page is: A silvery metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 39, mainly found in combination with lanthanide elements in rare earth minerals.
- Useful related words include: y, atomic number 39, metallic element, metal.
- In the example corpus, yttrium often appears in combinations such as: and yttrium, yttrium and, yttrium iron.
Context around Yttrium
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Yttrium
- In this selection, "yttrium" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, scandium, example, doped, iron, aluminium and orthovanadate stand out and add context to how "yttrium" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include positions below yttrium and scandium and yttrium in group. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "yttrium" sits close to words such as aar, aarons and abdulla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with yttrium
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It was soon found that replacing the lanthanum with yttrium (i. (11 words)
Lanthanum (La) and actinium (Ac) occupy the two positions below yttrium. (11 words)
Lutetium (Lu) and lawrencium (Lr) occupy the two positions below yttrium. (11 words)
See, for example: citation Early techniques for chemically separating scandium, yttrium and lutetium relied on the fact that these elements occurred together in the so-called "yttrium group" whereas La and Ac occurred together in the "cerium group". (38 words)
Position in the periodic table Traditionally, from the 1940s, lanthanum has been placed under scandium and yttrium in group 3 of the periodic table, as its differentiating electron from the previous element goes into a d-orbital. (37 words)
Holmium is used in yttrium- iron garnet (YIG)- and yttrium- lanthanum -fluoride (YLF) solid-state lasers found in microwave equipment (which are in turn found in a variety of medical and dental settings). (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Neodymium is a common dopant in various solid-state laser crystals, including yttrium orthovanadate ( Nd:YVO 4 ), yttrium lithium fluoride ( Nd:YLF ) and yttrium aluminium garnet ( Nd:YAG ).
China is one of the leading producers of yttrium oxide and yttrium, followed by Australia, due to the availability of large rare earth metal reserves in the regions.
Holmium is used in yttrium- iron garnet (YIG)- and yttrium- lanthanum -fluoride (YLF) solid-state lasers found in microwave equipment (which are in turn found in a variety of medical and dental settings).
See, for example: citation Early techniques for chemically separating scandium, yttrium and lutetium relied on the fact that these elements occurred together in the so-called "yttrium group" whereas La and Ac occurred together in the "cerium group".
A combination of heavy and light rare earth oxides, excluding cerium and yttrium.
Another example is the injection of yttrium-90 radioactive glass or resin microspheres into the hepatic artery to radioembolize liver tumors or liver metastases.
As an example, Yttrium iron garnet phase shifters must be changed after transmit pulse quench and before receiver processing starts to align transmit and receive beams.
As well as the elements of groups 4 to 11, they add scandium and yttrium in group 3 which have a partially filled d subshell in the metallic state.
Element substitution for the calcium cation often includes certain rare earth elements (REE), such as yttrium and cerium.
For long distance fibre communication, typically at 1310 nm or 1550 nm, yttrium iron garnet crystals are used (YIG).
However, this position has sometimes been disputed, on the grounds that yttrium and to a lesser extent scandium are closer in their chemical properties to lutetium than lanthanum.
It was soon found that replacing the lanthanum with yttrium (i.
Lanthanum (La) and actinium (Ac) occupy the two positions below yttrium.
Laser Holmium chromium -thulium triple-doped Yttrium aluminum garnet (Ho:Cr:Tm:YAG, or Ho,Cr,Tm:YAG) is an active laser medium material with high efficiency.
Laser lithotripsy is another technique, which involves the use of a holmium yttrium aluminium garnet (Ho:YAG) laser to fragment stones in the bladder, ureters, and kidneys.
Lavelle citation further argued for the retention of lanthanum under yttrium given several well-known reference books featured periodic tables with such an arrangement.
Lutetium (Lu) and lawrencium (Lr) occupy the two positions below yttrium.
Lutetium usually occurs in association with the element yttrium and is sometimes used in metal alloys and as a catalyst in various chemical reactions.
Matthias citation described the placement of lanthanum under yttrium as, "a mistake in the periodic system—unfortunately mostly propagated by the Welsh Sargent-Welch Company…and…everybody copied it".
Position in the periodic table Traditionally, from the 1940s, lanthanum has been placed under scandium and yttrium in group 3 of the periodic table, as its differentiating electron from the previous element goes into a d-orbital.
Common combinations with yttrium
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: