Erbium Definition

ûrbē-əm
noun
A soft, malleable, silvery rare-earth element, used in metallurgy and nuclear research and to color glass and porcelain. Atomic number 68; atomic weight 167.26; melting point 1,529°C; boiling point 2,868°C; specific gravity 9.066; valence 3.
American Heritage
A trivalent chemical element, one of the rare-earth elements: symbol, Er; at. no. 68
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • atomic number 68
  • er

Origin of Erbium

  • After Ytterby , a town in Sweden

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • After Ytterby, Sweden.

    From Wiktionary

Erbium Sentence Examples

  • The glass in these lenses contains three elements (neodymium, erbium, and praseodymium) which enhance color perception while improving both contrast and depth perception.

  • Laser treatment for acne scars typically uses a combination of a carbon dioxide and an erbium laser.

  • Meyer thinks that the susceptibilities of the metals praseodymium, neodymium, ytterbium, samarium, gadolinium, and erbium, when obtained in a pure form, will be found to equal or even exceed those of the well-known ferromagnetic metals.

  • Many of their compounds are very strongly magnetic, erbium, for example, in Er203 being four times as strong as iron in the familiar magnetite or lodestone, Fe203.

  • In the 4th century it is named by the poet Ausonius in his Ordo nobilium erbium, chiefly, perhaps, on the strength of its historic memories.

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