Ytterby Village: Ytterby is the most unique village in the world, located on the Swedish island of Resaro. This village has the highest number of people as compared to other places. Rare elements discovered. Each of these rare elements is very important, whose discovery gave a new direction to science. All these rare elements have been isolated from a single mineral extracted from a mine located in this village. You will be shocked to know about where these rare elements are used!
How many rare elements were found?: According to the report of Amusingplanet.com, Yttrium, Ytterbium, Terbium, Erbium, Gadolinium, Thulium, Scandium, Holmium are found in Ytterbi village. , Dysprosium and Lutetium were found to be rare elements.
4 elements are named after the village
Ytterby, the village in Sweden which has 4 elements in the Periodic Table named after this one single town – yttrium(Y), erbium(Er), terbium(Tb) and ytterbium(Yb). In addition 4 other elements’ discovery (Sc, Ho, Tm, Gd) can be traced to the village quarry. https://t.co/XZKbXbhLBt pic.twitter.com/YQWJbbjP5Z
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All these are rare elements, which are rarely found in nature. It took decades for chemists and scientists to discover these elements.
See here- pictures of Yatarbi village
Taking a little trip to the archipelago today and had to make a quick Chemistry pilgrimage to the village of Ytterby. 8 new elements were discovered from minerals found in the mine here and four of them are named after the village. #RealTimeChem pic.twitter.com/Oydg5wPlII
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What mineral was found from the mine?
In the year 1787, when a chemist Carl Axel Arrhenius discovered an ore in a mine located in the village of Ytterby, he named it Ytterbite, whose sample was later examined and researched by many chemists. In 1789, Johann Gadolin, a chemist at Obero University, first discovered the rare element yttrium in the ore ytterbite. Over the next hundred years, nine more rare elements were isolated from this ore. Later the name of this ore was changed from Ytterbite to Gadolinite.
use of rare elements
These rare elements found are used in many places. In which a brief description of the use of some elements is as follows:-
- yttrium It is used in LEDs, television set cathode ray tube displays, electronic filters, lasers, superconductors.
- terbium It is used to make semi-conductors, TV screens, fluorescent lamps, naval sonar systems and sensors.
- erbium Used in lasers, optical amplifiers, dentistry.
- ytterbium Used in stainless steel, dopant of active laser media, atomic clocks.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: January 31, 2024, 16:24 IST