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{{Element 
| name=Yttrium
| symbol=Y
| anumber=39 
| amass=88.905
| state=[[Solid]]
| class=[[Metal]]
| cstructure=
| color=Silver
| date=1794
| discname=Gadolin
| origname=Ytterby Quary
| uses=Color [[television]] tubes
| obtained=Monazite sand
}}
'''Yttrium''' is a stable silvery-colored metal. It occurs in nearly all [[rare earth metals]], and was found in high relatively [[concentration]]s in [[moon|lunar]] rock samples. Its largest use is to give the red color in television tubes, and it is often used as an additive in other metal [[alloy]]s.<ref>[http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/39.html Yttrium], [[Los Alamos]] National Labs.</ref>

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