Symbol
Yb
Group Number
3
Rank: 15 (Overall)
0
17
👆🏻
Period Number
6
Rank: 2 (Overall)
2
7
👆🏻
Block
f block
Element Family
Lanthanide
CAS Number
7440644
Rank: 26 (Overall)
7429905
54386242
👆🏻
Space Group Name
Fm_ 3m
Space Group Number
225.00
Rank: 3 (Overall)
11
276
👆🏻
Interesting Facts
- Ytterbium metal oxidizes rapidly if exposed to air.
- Ytterbium metal can dissolve quickly in Mineral acid.
Sources
Found in Minerals, Mining, Ores of Minerals
History
Who Discovered
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac
Discovery
In 1878
Abundance
Abundance In Universe
0.00 %
Rank: 23 (Overall)
0
0.11
👆🏻
Abundance In Sun
0.00 %
Rank: 26 (Overall)
0
0.1
👆🏻
Abundance In Meteorites
0.00 %
Rank: 36 (Overall)
0
22
👆🏻
Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.00 %
Rank: 33 (Overall)
1E-37
8.1
👆🏻
Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %
Rank: 37 (Overall)
0
1.1
👆🏻
Abundance In Humans
0.00 %
Rank: 24 (Overall)
0
1.4
👆🏻
Uses & Benefits
- Ytterbium metal is used in memory devices and tuneable laser.
-
It is also used as industrial catalyst as the other catalysts are too toxic and polluting.
Industrial Uses
Automobile Industry, Chemical Industry
Medical Uses
-
Other Uses
Alloys
Biological Properties
Toxicity
Highly Toxic
Present in Human Body
✔
✘
27% - Lanthanide Series Metals
In Blood
0.00 Blood/mg dm-3
Rank: 40 (Overall)
0
1970
👆🏻
In Bone
2.10 p.p.m.
Rank: 15 (Overall)
0
170000
👆🏻
Melting Point
824.00 °C
Rank: 54 (Overall)
-38.83
3410
👆🏻
Boiling Point
1,196.00 °C
Rank: 65 (Overall)
0
5660
👆🏻
Appearance
Physical State
Solid
Color
Silvery White
Luster
Metallic
Hardness
Mohs Hardness
1.00
Rank: 22 (Overall)
0.2
8.5
👆🏻
Brinell Hardness
343.00 MPa
Rank: 37 (Overall)
0.14
3490
👆🏻
Vickers Hardness
206.00 MPa
Rank: 54 (Overall)
0
3920
👆🏻
Speed of Sound
1,590.00 m/s
Rank: 66 (Overall)
818
16200
👆🏻
Optical Properties
Refractive Index
1.60
Rank: 33 (Overall)
0.155
3.41
👆🏻
Reflectivity
30.00 %
Rank: 35 (Overall)
5
97
👆🏻
Allotropes
✔
✘
No - Lanthanide Series Metals has it !
α Allotropes
-
β Allotropes
-
γ Allotropes
-
Chemical Formula
Yb
Isotopes
Known Isotopes
30
Rank: 9 (Overall)
0
38
👆🏻
Electronegativity
Pauling Electronegativity
1.10
Rank: 45 (Overall)
0
2.6
👆🏻
Sanderson Electronegativity
1.10
Rank: 38 (Overall)
0.22
2.56
👆🏻
Allred Rochow Electronegativity
1.06
Rank: 34 (Overall)
0.86
1.9
👆🏻
Mulliken-Jaffe Electronegativity
1.10
Rank: 44 (Overall)
0.62
2.48
👆🏻
Allen Electronegativity
1.10
Rank: 55 (Overall)
0.659
2.7
👆🏻
Electropositivity
Pauling Electropositivity
2.20
Rank: 39 (Overall)
1.46
3.3
👆🏻
Ionization Energies
1st Energy Level
603.40 kJ/mol
Rank: 51 (Overall)
375.7
26130
👆🏻
2nd Energy Level
1,174.80 kJ/mol
Rank: 65 (Overall)
392.8
28750
👆🏻
3rd Energy Level
2,417.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 50 (Overall)
392.8
34230
👆🏻
4th Energy Level
4,203.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 41 (Overall)
375.7
37066
👆🏻
5th Energy Level
6,150.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 42 (Overall)
392
97510
👆🏻
6th Energy Level
6,030.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 57 (Overall)
1007
105800
👆🏻
7th Energy level
6,150.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 49 (Overall)
1007
114300
👆🏻
8th Energy Level
6,034.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 49 (Overall)
730
125300
👆🏻
9th Energy Level
6,150.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 45 (Overall)
1007
134700
👆🏻
10th Energy Level
6,150.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 46 (Overall)
392
144300
👆🏻
11th Energy Level
6,150.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 51 (Overall)
392
169988
👆🏻
12th Energy Level
6,030.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 59 (Overall)
0
189368
👆🏻
13th Energy Level
6,030.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 42 (Overall)
1007
76015
👆🏻
14th Energy Level
6,030.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 31 (Overall)
380
86450
👆🏻
15th Energy Level
60,300.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 43 (Overall)
33000
100700
👆🏻
16th Energy Level
60,300.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 32 (Overall)
375.7
109480
👆🏻
17th Energy Level
603.40 kJ/mol
Rank: 53 (Overall)
375.7
122200
👆🏻
18th Energy Level
6,110.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 42 (Overall)
0
134810
👆🏻
19th Energy Level
603.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 50 (Overall)
375.7
148700
👆🏻
20th Energy Level
615.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 45 (Overall)
0
171200
👆🏻
21st Energy Level
603.40 kJ/mol
Rank: 61 (Overall)
375.7
179100
👆🏻
22nd Energy Level
603.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 41 (Overall)
330
184900
👆🏻
23rd Energy Level
603.40 kJ/mol
Rank: 60 (Overall)
357.6
198800
👆🏻
24th Energy Level
603.40 kJ/mol
Rank: 43 (Overall)
297.3
195200
👆🏻
25th Energy Level
603.40 kJ/mol
Rank: 45 (Overall)
0
121900
👆🏻
26th Energy Level
603.40 kJ/mol
Rank: 44 (Overall)
357.6
127700
👆🏻
27th Energy Level
603.40 kJ/mol
Rank: 47 (Overall)
0
133800
👆🏻
28th Energy Level
603.40 kJ/mol
Rank: 51 (Overall)
297.3
139800
👆🏻
29th Energy Level
603.40 kJ/mol
Rank: 52 (Overall)
0
148100
👆🏻
30th Energy Level
603.40 kJ/mol
Rank: 48 (Overall)
0
154500
👆🏻
Electrochemical Equivalent
2.15 g/amp-hr
Rank: 29 (Overall)
0.16812
8.3209
👆🏻
Electron Work Function
3.20 eV
Rank: 45 (Overall)
2.14
6
👆🏻
Other Chemical Properties
Ionization, Radioactive Isotopes, Solubility
Atomic Number
70
Rank: 46 (Overall)
3
117
👆🏻
Electron Configuration
[Xe] 4f14 6s2
Crystal Structure
Face Centered Cubic (FCC)
Crystal Lattice
Atom
Number of Protons
70
Rank: 45 (Overall)
3
117
👆🏻
Number of Neutrons
103
Rank: 32 (Overall)
4
285
👆🏻
Number of Electrons
70
Rank: 45 (Overall)
3
117
👆🏻
Radius of an Atom
Atomic Radius
176.00 pm
Rank: 20 (Overall)
0
348
👆🏻
Covalent Radius
187.00 pm
Rank: 20 (Overall)
0
260
👆🏻
Van der Waals Radius
242.00 pm
Rank: 16 (Overall)
0
348
👆🏻
Atomic Weight
173.05 amu
Rank: 41 (Overall)
6.94
294
👆🏻
Atomic Volume
24.79 cm3/mol
Rank: 13 (Overall)
1.39
71.07
👆🏻
Adjacent Atomic Numbers
Previous Element
Next Element
Valence Electron Potential
50.30 (-eV)
Rank: 28 (Overall)
0
392.42
👆🏻
Lattice Constant
548.47 pm
Rank: 12 (Overall)
0
891.25
👆🏻
Lattice Angles
π/2, π/2, π/2
Lattice C/A Ratio
1.61
Rank: 20 (Overall)
0.423
1.9
👆🏻
Density
Density At Room Temperature
6.90 g/cm3
Rank: 67 (Overall)
0.534
40.7
👆🏻
Density When Liquid (at m.p.)
6.21 g/cm3
Rank: 70 (Overall)
0.512
41
👆🏻
Tensile Strength
58.00 MPa
Rank: 36 (Overall)
0.1
11000
👆🏻
Viscosity
0.00
Rank: 20 (Overall)
1.5E-05
0.0035
👆🏻
Vapor Pressure
Vapor Pressure at 1000 K
0.00 (Pa)
Rank: 37 (Overall)
0
121
👆🏻
Vapor Pressure at 2000 K
0.00 (Pa)
Rank: 37 (Overall)
0
774
👆🏻
Elasticity properties
Shear Modulus
9.90 GPa
Rank: 54 (Overall)
1.3
222
👆🏻
Bulk Modulus
30.50 GPa
Rank: 50 (Overall)
0
462
👆🏻
Young's Modulus
23.90 GPa
Rank: 50 (Overall)
0
528
👆🏻
Poisson Ratio
0.21
Rank: 34 (Overall)
0.032
0.47
👆🏻
Other Mechanical Properties
Ductile, Malleable
Magnetic Characteristics
Specific Gravity
6.97
Rank: 64 (Overall)
0.53
4500
👆🏻
Magnetic Ordering
Paramagnetic
Permeability
0.00 H/m
Rank: 13 (Overall)
1.25643E-06
0.0063
👆🏻
Susceptibility
0.00
Rank: 24 (Overall)
-0.000166
200000
👆🏻
Electrical Properties
Electrical Property
Conductor
Resistivity
0.25 nΩ·m
Rank: 88 (Overall)
0.1
961
👆🏻
Electrical Conductivity
0.04 106/cm Ω
Rank: 43 (Overall)
0
0.63
👆🏻
Electron Affinity
50.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 26 (Overall)
0
222.8
👆🏻
Specific Heat
0.15 J/(kg K)
Rank: 37 (Overall)
0.1
3.6
👆🏻
Molar Heat Capacity
26.74 J/mol·K
Rank: 32 (Overall)
13.1
62.7
👆🏻
Thermal Conductivity
38.50 W/m·K
Rank: 35 (Overall)
0
429
👆🏻
Critical Temperature
26.30 K
Rank: 78 (Overall)
26.3
3695
👆🏻
Thermal Expansion
26.30 µm/(m·K)
Rank: 14 (Overall)
4.5
97
👆🏻
Enthalpy
Enthalpy of Vaporization
128.90 kJ/mol
Rank: 73 (Overall)
7.32
799.1
👆🏻
Enthalpy of Fusion
7.66 kJ/mol
Rank: 49 (Overall)
2.1
35.23
👆🏻
Enthalpy of Atomization
180.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 59 (Overall)
61.5
837
👆🏻
Standard Molar Entropy
59.90 J/mol.K
Rank: 26 (Overall)
9.5
198.1
👆🏻