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Definition of Terbium

1. Noun. A metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite.

Definition of Terbium

1. n. A rare metallic element, of uncertain identification, supposed to exist in certain minerals, as gadolinite and samarskite, with other rare ytterbium earth. Symbol Tr or Tb. Atomic weight 150.

Definition of Terbium

1. Noun. a metallic chemical element (''symbol'' Tb) with an atomic number of 65 ¹

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Definition of Terbium

1. a metallic element [n -S] : TERBIC [adj]

Medical Definition of Terbium

1. A rare metallic element, of uncertain identification, supposed to exist in certain minerals, as gadolinite and samarskite, with other rare ytterbium earth. Symbol Tr or Tb. Atomic weight 150. Origin: NL, fr. Ytterby, in Sweden. See Erbium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Terbium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1905)
"terbium has such a tendency to make basic salts that it ... A better way is to pour the terbium solution into an excess of caustic potassa, &c. ..."

2. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, John Cannell Cain, Carl Schorlemmer (1913)
"terbium. Tb= 159-2. 371 The existence of the earth originally called erbia by Mosander was denied by Berlin (18(iO), and by Bahr and Bunsen (1866), ..."

3. The Metals of the Rare Earths by James Frederick Spencer (1919)
"The terbium Earths. The elements europium, gadolinium, and terbium constitute the terbium group. These three elements give rise to colourless oxides of the ..."

4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"With europium and terbium, gadolinium forms the small group of terbium metals ... The presence of small quantities of terbium is indicated by a faint yellow ..."

5. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1908)
"If terbium oxalate or hydroxide is heated in a muffle a peroxide is obtained, ... This method consists in dissolving terbium peroxide by warming it with a ..."

6. Qualitative Chemical Analysis: A Guide in Qualitative Work, with Data for by Albert Benjamin Prescott, Otis Coe Johnson (1901)
"The terbium compounds are very similar to the yttrium compounds. ... The double potassium terbium sulphate has about the same solubilities as the ..."

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