erbium
noun/ˈɜː.bɪ.əm/UK/ˈɝ.bi.əm/US
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin erbium; itself from Swedish Ytterby (the name of the town where the element was first discovered) + -ium, coined by Swedish chemist and mineralogist Carl Gustaf Mosander in 1843. Doublet of terbium, ytterbium, and yttrium.
- borrowed from erbium
Definitions
A chemical element (symbol Er) with atomic number 68
A chemical element (symbol Er) with atomic number 68: a silvery-white metal, in nature always found in combination with other elements.
A single atom of this element.
The neighborhood
Derived
dierbium, erbate, erbian, erbium oxide, erbium trichloride, organoerbium, radioerbium
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