ytterbium

ytterbium has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. A rare element of the boron group, sometimes associated with yttrium or other related elements, as in euxenite and gadolinite. Symbol Yb; provisional atomic weight 173.2. Cf. Yttrium.
• n.. a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime