(n.) A rare element of the boron group, sometimes associated with yttrium or other related elements, as in euxenite and gadolinite. Symbol Yb; provisional atomic weight 173.2. Cf. Yttrium.
Example Sentences:
(1) The displacement of calcium by ytterbium at the EF site has caused a movement in the polypeptide backbone of Ser-91 and Asp-92.
(2) The elements added to increase radiopacity in the composite materials are barium, strontium, zinc, zirconium, and ytterbium.
(3) Ytterbium attached to sorghum was used as a particulate marker.
(4) The RIHSA or Ytterbium isotope-examination are not an extra burden to the patient if the radiopharmacon is introduced into the dural sac following Queckenstedt's test.
(5) Synthetic triclinic calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystals were uniformly trace-labeled with Ytterbium-169 (169Yb), a pure gamma-emitting isotope with a halflife of 31 days.
(6) Use is made of some new ideas that allow quantification of the likely dose homogeneity that can be obtained in a brachytherapy distribution, and in this context ytterbium 169 is shown to be superior to some currently available brachytherapy nuclides.
(7) Nutrient markers were oxides of samarium, scandium, ytterbium, and europium.
(8) Ruminal turnover rates of liquid were measured with chromium-ethylenediaminetetraacetate and solid turnover rates with ytterbium-marked fecal fiber, both dosed through the ruminal cannula.
(9) The addition of ytterbium to calcium-saturated porcine intestinal calcium-binding protein resulted in the appearance of broad lanthanide-shifted resonances well outside the normally observed region of the 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of the calcium form of the protein.
(10) Samples of duodenal digesta representative of a 24 h period were obtained using chromium-EDTA and ytterbium acetate for flow estimation and 35S as a marker of microbial N entering the small intestine.
(11) Similar results were obtained with ytterbium and tungsten in lumbar spine studies.
(12) In the present study ovarian blood flow was determined before and after a single intravenous injection of LH to anaesthetized, post-pubertal virgin rabbits, using 15 plus or minus 5 mum microspheres, labelled with Ytterbium-169 and Scandium-46.
(13) Isotope studies after injection of Ytterbium 169DTPA into the underlying cyst have shown abnormal patterns in CSF circulation and absorption.
(14) The crystal structure confirms the NMR studies, which suggest that low concentrations of ytterbium cause an extensive displacement of calcium from the EF metal binding site.
(15) Effects of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) and diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) derivatives on penetration of ytterbium-169 and cerium-144 into the rat offspring.
(16) Injection of ytterbium-169 as a complex with EDTA or DTPA or injection of Na2Ca EDTA or Na3Ca DTPA 1h after administration of cerium-144 to mothers reduced penetration of both radionuclides into offsprings in relation to the animals receiving no complex compounds.
(17) Ytterbium 169 (half-life 32 days; mean gamma emission 93 keV, after excluding photons of energy less than 10 keV) is a radionuclide with interesting potential for brachytherapy applications.
(18) Penetration of radioactive ytterbium-169 and cerium-144 into fetuses was determined at the end of pregnancy and penetration into the organism of suckling rats was studied during feeding with the milk of exposed mothers when EDTA or DTPA derivatives were being administered.
(19) CT scans of increasing concentrations of ytterbium and iodine showed that at 125 kVp, ytterbium was denser than an equal concentration of iodine.
(20) Of this, 8.8% of the ytterbium had migrated to the hay, 2% was recovered in the supernatant and 89.2% remained bound to the corn.