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CHAPTER IX
GENERAL PROPERTIES OF THE CERIUM AND YTTRIUM GROUPS
The chemistry of the rare earth elements begins in the year 1794, with Gadolin’s discovery of the new oxide ‘Ytterbia,’ for which the name Yttria was subsequently proposed by Ekeberg, and generally adopted (see
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