If you were to try reciting the periodic table, you might stumble before you ... Recently, we have shown that one rare earth element, erbium (element 68), can play a crucial part in the future ...

When it comes to the discovery of elements on the periodic table, you can divide the world ... yttrium, terbium, and erbium. The names couldn't get much shorter—rbium doesn't look right ...

Then, gradually, as you move across the periodic table to heavier atoms in the lanthanide ... the remaining lanthanides (promethium through erbium) by narrowing down which variables to include ...

The seventh row of the periodic table is complete ... Four of those elements are named in tribute to the village (ytterbium, erbium, terbium, yttrium). 15 are named after scientists, only two ...

feature on the periodic table. Eight elements were first isolated from rocks quarried in a the small village of Ytterby in Sweden. Four of those elements are named in tribute to the village (ytterbium ...

New elements have been added to the periodic table. But how do they get their ... to get four named after it (ytterbium, yttrium, erbium and terbium). No-one has yet named an element after ...