It’s a way of avoiding one of the most controversial questions about the periodic table: What elements belong in group 3? No one disputes scandium and yttrium. But which elements come below ...

On the Periodic Table of Elements, yttrium is among the transition metals, which include some more well-known elements, such as silver and iron. Transition metals tend to be strong but pliable ...

When it comes to the discovery of elements on the periodic table, you can divide the world ... come straight from Ytterby—ytterbium, yttrium, terbium, and erbium. The names couldn't get much ...

The periodic table is in large part a mystic mystery to those of us without a science background. What is Osmium? Roentgenium? Yttrium? We know these things . . . exist, but we don’t know how ...

Whether you need to brush up on your chemistry, or just love it when someone sets the Periodic Table to music ... your room Rubidium and Strontium then Yttrium, Zirconium Niobium, Molybdenum ...

We all know what some of the 118 elements are used for — we breathe oxygen, pour chlorine in our swimming pools and wrap gold around our fingers — but what about some of the more underrated members of ...

feature on the periodic table. Eight elements were first isolated from rocks quarried in a the small village of Ytterby in Sweden. Four of those elements are named in tribute to the village (ytterbium ...