terbium

Noun

Meaning

A rare metallic element, of uncertain identification, supposed to exist in certain minerals, as gadolinite and samarskite, with other rare ytterbium earth. Symbol Tr or Tb. Atomic weight 150.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

TB chromium lead metal bismuth cesium gold carbon iron silver calcium aluminum chlorine boron arsenic
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Antonyms

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Hypernyms

metal metallic element

Related terms

erbium yttrium ytterbium terbic

Phrases with the word

sodium terbium borate terbium peroxide terbium trichloride terbium dodecaboride

Anagrams

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Examples

It is now thought that workers using double sodium or potassium sulfates to remove ceria from yttria inadvertently lost the terbium into the ceria-containing precipitate. Source: Internet

Small amounts of terbium occur in bastnäsite and monazite; when these are processed by solvent extraction to recover the valuable heavy lanthanides as samarium europium gadolinium concentrate, terbium is recovered therein. Source: Internet

Sodium terbium borate is used in solid state devices. Source: Internet

Terfenol-D is a terbium alloy that expands or contracts in the presence of a magnetic field. Source: Internet

The brilliant fluorescence allows terbium to be used as a probe in biochemistry, where it somewhat resembles calcium in its behavior. Source: Internet

The chromatographic separation behavior was then unknown for the element 97, but was anticipated by analogy with terbium (see elution curves). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

terbic terbinafin terbinafine terbium dodecaboride terbium metal terbium oxide