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n. - A soft silvery metallic element - symbol, chemistry ytterbium.

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  • April 26, 2010 at 11: 15 AM the best metal is and will always be Ytterbium (Yb).
  • A quantum bit stored in a single trapped ytterbium ion Yb+ is teleported to a second Yb+ atom with an average fidelity of 90% over a replete set of states.
  • The gap represents the proper location of the first row of the inner transition metals — that is, lanthanum, La, which is element number 57, through ytterbium, Yb, which...
  • Eu-Yb, account for an average of 8% of TREO values.
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