If I told you that yttrium had surged in price by nearly 1,500% this year, I bet your next question would be: "What the hell is yttrium and how do I pronounce it?" In the case of the latter, it's ...

By Lewis Jackson BEIJING, April 30 (Reuters) - China exported large quantities of a speciality rare earth used in aerospace ...

Yttrium has quietly moved from obscure chemistry charts into the center of a strategic scramble, as a once-plentiful rare earth suddenly looks like a bottleneck for modern technology. The element sits ...

Workers operate the extraction of Yttrium-90 glass microspheres irradiated in the "Hefu-1" unit at the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant in Haiyan, East China's Zhejiang Province on June 14. Photo: Courtesy ...

Yttria (Y), an earth containing yttrium was discovered in 1794 by Gadolin. It was found in a quarry located at Ytterby in Sweden. This site yielded several unusual minerals containing rare earths and ...

Yttrium-90 radioembolization is a minimally invasive locoregional therapy for primary and secondary liver tumours that exploits the arterial blood supply of hepatic lesions. Microparticles loaded with ...

Scientists have been showing increasing interest in the field of nanoparticle research mainly due to the interesting and unexpected outcomes that are possible by altering the atomic and molecular ...