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You’ve given some thought to oxygen, carbon, uranium. But you’ve probably never mused about the element ytterbium, symbol Yb. A new study by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and ...

High precision clock comparisons of different atoms will contribute to a redefinition of the unit of time. The comparison of optical lattice clocks using ytterbium and strontium atoms has attained a ...

Bose-Einstein condensation occurs when a gas of atoms is cooled until the de Broglie wavelength of the atoms is comparable with the average distance between them. When this happens the atoms all ...

Ytterbium is a bit lighter than previously thought: Its standard atomic weight is now 173.045, down from 173.054, as approved by the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) in August.

The Last Page column (our funny page) in Smithsonian’s May issue is dedicated to people who missed the cut for Macarthur “Genius” Grants. An example: STAN LINDBERG -- EXPERIMENTAL CHEMIST Forging new ...

A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has provided an important clue to the origin of the element Ytterbium in the Milky Way This was accomplished by showing that the element largely ...