atomic number 70

1. 1.

   a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime

   SynonymsytterbiumYb

   Broadermetallic element

Questions about atomic number 70

What does atomic number 70 mean?

atomic number 70 means "a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime".

What is another word for atomic number 70?

Close synonyms include ytterbium, Yb. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is atomic number 70 a common word?

atomic number 70 is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.