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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.

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  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.
  2. n. a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite
  3. 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.
  4. A rare metallic element, of uncertain identification, supposedto exist in certain minerals, as gadolinite and samarskite, withother rare ytterbium earth. Symbol Tr or Tb. Atomic weight 150.
  5. n. a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite