How to Use yttrium in a Sentence

yttrium

noun

• Yttrium and neodymium are alloyed to make the magnets in turbines for windmills.
  — Nelson Ching, National Geographic, 10 June 2016
• Bone doesn't allow the ultrasonic sound waves through, but this special blend of yttrium and zirconium does.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2017
• Solids are memorable The case for ions in crystal, like ytterbium in yttrium-aluminum-garnet, is a bit different.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2019
• Elements were frequently named for the town or region where they were discovered, sometimes in a very provincial manner, as was the case with yttrium.
  — Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2011
• The team called the color YInMn after the chemicals that were combined to create it: yttrium, indium and manganese oxides.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 May 2017
• Rare earths include elements such as neodymium, used in magnets, and yttrium, used for electronics.
  — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
• For instance, yttrium, one of the metals included in this recent discovery, can be used to make camera lenses, superconductors and cell phone screens.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 16 Apr. 2018
• The manganese crusts are also estimated to contain other rare earth metals, such as neodymium, yttrium and dysprosium.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 30 Jan. 2023
• Heavy REEs—those with high atomic numbers, including dysprosium, yttrium, and terbium—are most commonly extracted from masses of clay formed through eons of weathering of igneous rocks such as granite.
  — Bydennis Normile, science.org, 1 Nov. 2022
• The superconductor in question is a steel ribbon, coated with yttrium-barium-copper oxide, or YBCO.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2018
• The iPhone contains a chorus of eight rare earth elements: neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, terbium, gadolinium, europium, lanthanum, and yttrium.
  — Edward Humes, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2016
• Nitrogen is put in diamond, phosphorous in silicon, and ytterbium in yttrium-aluminum-garnet crystals.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2019
• Three components: yttrium oxide, manganese oxide, and indium oxide.
  — Mark Thiessen, National Geographic, 8 Dec. 2020

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