different between erbium vs yttrium

English

Etymology

After Ytterby, Sweden, +? -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ûr'b??m, IPA^(key): /????bi?m/

Noun

erbium (countable and uncountable, plural erbiums)

1. A chemical element (symbol Er) with atomic number 68: a silvery-white metal, in nature always found in combination with other elements.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

• erbium oxide
• erbium trichloride

Related terms

• erbia
• terbium
• ytterbium
• yttrium

Translations

Anagrams

• imbrue, imbuer, murbie

Afrikaans

Noun

erbium (uncountable)

1. erbium

Derived terms

• erbies

Czech

Noun

erbium n

1. erbium (metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 68)

Danish

Noun

erbium

1. erbium
   • 1874, Beretning ..., page 29

     ... at Thorium maaske bør betragtes som fireatomet, Cer, Lanthan, Didym, Erbium og Yttrium derimod som treatomige.

   • 2016, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, DNA, Lindhardt og Ringhof ?ISBN

     Erbium, stoffet med atomnummer otteogtres og atomtegn Er.

   • 1881, Tidsskrift for physik og chemi: samt disse videnskabers anvendelse ...

     ... Vanadium, Antimon, Tantal, Erbium, Ytterbium, Cerium, ...

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed. Named after Ytterby in Sweden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r.bi??m/
• Hyphenation: er?bi?um
• Rhymes: -?rbi?m

Noun

erbium n (uncountable)

1. erbium

Related terms

• terbium
• ytterbium
• yttrium

Estonian

Etymology

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Noun

erbium (genitive erbiumi, partitive erbiumi or erbiumit)

1. erbium

Declension

Finnish

Noun

erbium

1. erbium

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.bj?m/

Noun

erbium m (uncountable)

1. erbium

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??rbijum]
• Hyphenation: er?bi?um
• Rhymes: -um

Noun

erbium (usually uncountable, plural erbiumok)

1. erbium (chemical element)

Declension

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?er.bi.um/, [??rbi???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?er.bi.um/, [??rbium]

Noun

erbium n (genitive erbi?); second declension

1. erbium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?æ??bj??m]

Noun

erbium n

1. (uncountable) erbium
2. A part of erbium

Inflection

Malay

Etymology

From English erbium, from Swedish Ytterby.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?(r)biom], [?(r)bi?m]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

erbium

1. erbium (chemical element)

Slovak

Etymology

From the Swedish town of Ytterby.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rbium/

Noun

erbium n (genitive singular erbia, declension pattern of mesto)

1. erbium (element)

Declension

References

• erbium in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rb??m/

Noun

erbium c

1. erbium

Declension

English

Etymology

From Ytterby (literally “outer village”), a town in Sweden, + -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?t'r??m, IPA^(key): /??.t?i.?m/

Noun

yttrium (usually uncountable, plural yttriums)

1. A silvery metallic chemical element (symbol Y) with an atomic number of 39, mainly found in combination with lanthanide elements in rare-earth minerals.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• bastnasite

Afrikaans

Noun

yttrium (uncountable)

1. yttrium

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??tr?um]
• Hyphenation: yt?t?rium

Noun

yttrium n

1. yttrium (metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 39)

Declension

Danish

Noun

yttrium n (singular definite yttriummet, not used in plural form)

1. yttrium

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin yttrium or Swedish yttrium. Named after Ytterby in Sweden. The first mention is from the late eighteenth century, which in fact referred to gadolinite, a mineral that was at the time misidentified as an element.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.tri.?m/
• Hyphenation: yt?tri?um

Noun

yttrium n (uncountable)

1. yttrium [from mid 19th c.]

Related terms

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?yt?rium/, [?yt??rium]
• Rhymes: -yt?rium
• Syllabification: ytt?ri?um

Noun

yttrium

1. yttrium

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.t?i.j?m/

Noun

yttrium m (uncountable)

1. yttrium

Further reading

• “yttrium” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?yt.tri.um/, [??t???i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?it.tri.um/, [?it???ium]

Noun

yttrium n (genitive yttri?); second declension

1. yttrium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??tr??m/

Noun

yttrium n (uncountable)

1. yttrium

Declension