All About - Ytterbium

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What is Ytterbium? A documentary report all about Ytterbium for homework/assignment. Ytterbium is a chemical element with symbol Yb and atomic number 70. It is the fourteenth and penultimate element in the lanthanide series, or last element in the f-block, which is the basis of the relative stability of the +2 oxidation state. However, like the other lanthanides, the most common oxidation state is +3, seen in its oxide, halides and other compounds. In aqueous solution, like compounds of other late lanthanides, soluble ytterbium compounds form complexes with nine water molecules. Because of its closed-shell electron configuration, its density and melting and boiling points differ from those of the other lanthanides. Intro/Outro music: Discovery Hit/Chucky the Construction Worker - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under CC-BY-3.0 Text derived from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ytterbium Text to Speech powered by voice-rss.com Images are Public Domain or CC-BY-3.0: Ytterbium-3.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ytterbium Electron_shell_070_ytterbium.png from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_shell_070_ytterbium.png 2000px-Electron_shell_070_Ytterbium_-_no_label.svg.png from http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ytterbium Ytterbium(III)_chloride.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ytterbium(III)_chloride 250px-Ytterbium-3.jpg from http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%85 768px-Electron_shell_070_Ytterbium_-_no_label.svg.png from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_shell_070_Ytterbium_-_no_label.svg