Terbium - turns up in old TVs & new Euro notes

A discovery from the chemically prolific Swedish village of Ytterby, terbium produced the green on old TV sets & adds security to Euro notes, says Prof Allan Blackman from AUT in ep 85 of Elemental. A discovery from the chemically prolific Swedish village of Ytterby, the lanthanoid terbium produced the green on old TV sets & adds security to Euro notes, says Professor Allan Blackman from the Auckland University of Technology, in episode 85 of Elemental. For further elements named after Ytterby, see erbium, yttrium and ytterbium (although you'll have to wait for the latter two). Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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Terbium - turns up in old TVs & new Euro notes is an episode from Elemental by RNZ.

This episode is 00:08:54 long.

This episode was published on Nov 14, 2019.

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