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Yttrium is a chemical elemental metal. It is atomic number 39 on the periodic table. It is silvery-white and tends to form crystals. In chunk form, it is unreactive in air, but powdered yttrium may burn at 400 degrees Celsius. It has several uses, which include lasers, TV's, and metallurgy.


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  • Yttrium + carbonate

    Left: Soluble yttrium salts reacts with carbonate, forming white precipitate yttrium carbonate. Right: Yttrium carbonate is soluble in excess alkali metal carbonate solution

  • Grainy irregular shaped yellow spot with red rim on a black background

    Mira is an example of the type of red giant star in which most of the yttrium in the solar system was created

  • Black and white bust painting of a young man with neckerchief in a coat. The hair is only faintly painted and looks grey.

    Johan Gadolin discovered yttrium oxide

  • Three column shaped brown crystals on a white background

    Xenotime crystals contain yttrium

  • Roughly cube shaped piece of dirty grey metal with an uneven superficial structure.

    A piece of yttrium. Yttrium is difficult to separate from other rare-earth elements.

  • Forty columns of oval dots, 30 dots high. First red then green then blue. The columns of red starts with only four dots in red from the bottom becoming more with every column to the right

    Yttrium is one of the elements that was used to make the red color in CRT televisions

  • Yag-rod

    Nd:YAG laser rod 0.5 cm in diameter

  • Dark grey pills on a watchglass. One cubic piece of the same material on top of the pills.

    YBCO superconductor

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