Clockwise from left: a scaly lump of yttrium (from Wikimedia Commons), yttrium plays an important part in radar technology (from GetArchive), yttrium as it appears on the periodic table. Today we complete the Ytterby quadrology- the quartet of elements named after the Swedish village whose mine provided the minerals of their discovery. We’ve had ytterbium,Continue reading “Day 111: Yttrium”
Each day for the rest of 2020 I'll write a bit about a random element of the periodic table.
An Element A Day 