"Joseph Michael Bay" > wrote in message
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no matter how much yttrium it has.
>
> (That's a made up example, by the way. I'm pretty sure nobody
> needs yttrium in their diet. I just like saying "yttrium").

LOL.. so .. what is it?

Ophelia

Ophelia wrote:

> "Joseph Michael Bay" > wrote in message
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> no matter how much yttrium it has.
>
>>(That's a made up example, by the way. I'm pretty sure nobody
>>needs yttrium in their diet. I just like saying "yttrium").
>
> LOL.. so .. what is it?

Yttrium is a major ingredient in yttrofluorite.
I collected some of that in Colorado back in 1961.

Charles "purveyor of useless information for 65 years"

On Fri, 26 May 2006 19:48:41 GMT, "Charles Wm. Dimmick"
> wrote:

>Ophelia wrote:
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>> "Joseph Michael Bay" > wrote in message
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>>
>> no matter how much yttrium it has.
>>
>>>(That's a made up example, by the way. I'm pretty sure nobody
>>>needs yttrium in their diet. I just like saying "yttrium").
>>
>> LOL.. so .. what is it?
>
>Yttrium is a major ingredient in yttrofluorite.
>I collected some of that in Colorado back in 1961.
>
>Charles "purveyor of useless information for 65 years"


What the going rate for the yttrium info?

Boron

"Charles Wm. Dimmick" > wrote in message
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> Ophelia wrote:
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>> "Joseph Michael Bay" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>> no matter how much yttrium it has.
>>
>>>(That's a made up example, by the way. I'm pretty sure nobody
>>>needs yttrium in their diet. I just like saying "yttrium").
>>
>> LOL.. so .. what is it?
>
> Yttrium is a major ingredient in yttrofluorite.
> I collected some of that in Colorado back in 1961.
>
> Charles "purveyor of useless information for 65 years"

Um errrrr nodnodnod.. whatever you say)))

"Ophelia" > writes:


>"Joseph Michael Bay" > wrote in message
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> no matter how much yttrium it has.
>>
>> (That's a made up example, by the way. I'm pretty sure nobody
>> needs yttrium in their diet. I just like saying "yttrium").

>LOL.. so .. what is it?

If I tell you, will you buy me one of these?

http://www.nonzerochance.com/index.p...style= tshirt


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Joseph Michael Bay wrote:
> "Ophelia" > writes:
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>
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>>"Joseph Michael Bay" > wrote in message
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>
>
>>no matter how much yttrium it has.
>>
>>>(That's a made up example, by the way. I'm pretty sure nobody
>>>needs yttrium in their diet. I just like saying "yttrium").
>
>
>>LOL.. so .. what is it?
>
>
> If I tell you, will you buy me one of these?
>
> http://www.nonzerochance.com/index.p...style= tshirt
>
>
I am *SO* getting myself one of those..



P.

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"Joseph Michael Bay" > wrote in message
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> "Ophelia" > writes:
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>>"Joseph Michael Bay" > wrote in message
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>
>> no matter how much yttrium it has.
>>>
>>> (That's a made up example, by the way. I'm pretty sure nobody
>>> needs yttrium in their diet. I just like saying "yttrium").
>
>>LOL.. so .. what is it?
>
> If I tell you, will you buy me one of these?
>
> http://www.nonzerochance.com/index.p...style= tshirt

oh! It opened) If you want it, you may have it)

"Ophelia" > wrote:

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>"Joseph Michael Bay" > wrote in message
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>
> no matter how much yttrium it has.
>>
>> (That's a made up example, by the way. I'm pretty sure nobody
>> needs yttrium in their diet. I just like saying "yttrium").
>
>LOL.. so .. what is it?

There is an obscure small ghost town in scandinavia named Ytterby.
Because ores from near it were studied in a certain era of the age of
chemical discovery, there are FOUR elements named after that obscure
ghost town. The most important attribute of the "lanthanide"
elements is that they are almost entirely the same as each other. If
you discover an element that is essentially identical to the next
element over, then how do you come up with a name for it? For several
of these, letters were dropped from the previous element. Ytterbium.
Yttrium. Terbium. Erbium.

Or something like that. I'm disconnected from the net at the moment
and don't remember my chemistry well enough to look it up. And I'm
not at home to look it up in reference works.
--
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Greg Goss, 1989-01-27

"Greg Goss" > wrote in message
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> "Ophelia" > wrote:
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>>
>>"Joseph Michael Bay" > wrote in message
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>>
>> no matter how much yttrium it has.
>>>
>>> (That's a made up example, by the way. I'm pretty sure nobody
>>> needs yttrium in their diet. I just like saying "yttrium").
>>
>>LOL.. so .. what is it?
>
> There is an obscure small ghost town in scandinavia named Ytterby.
> Because ores from near it were studied in a certain era of the age of
> chemical discovery, there are FOUR elements named after that obscure
> ghost town. The most important attribute of the "lanthanide"
> elements is that they are almost entirely the same as each other. If
> you discover an element that is essentially identical to the next
> element over, then how do you come up with a name for it? For several
> of these, letters were dropped from the previous element. Ytterbium.
> Yttrium. Terbium. Erbium.
>
> Or something like that. I'm disconnected from the net at the moment
> and don't remember my chemistry well enough to look it up. And I'm
> not at home to look it up in reference works.

Thank you very much for your explanations Greg

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