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terbia
[ tur-bee-uh ]
noun
, Chemistry.
- an amorphous white powder, Tb 2 O 3 .
terbia
/ ˈtɜːbɪə /
noun
- another name (not in technical usage) for terbium oxide
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Yttria is an exceedingly complex mixture, which has been decomposed, yielding as an intermediate product terbia.
From Project Gutenberg
In 1841 Mosander, having in 1839 discovered a new element lanthanum in the mineral cerite, isolated this element and also a hitherto unrecognized substance, didymia, from crude yttria, and two years later he announced the determination of two fresh constituents of the same earth, naming them erbia and terbia.
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The other members of the group closely resemble it, and amongst them are erbia, terbia, ytterbia, scandia, &c.
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