• Yttrium lithium fluoride (LiYF4, sometimes abbreviated YLF) is a birefringent crystal, typically doped with neodymium or praseodymium and used as a gain...
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  • Neodymium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride (Nd:YLF) is a lasing medium for arc lamp-pumped and diode-pumped solid-state lasers. The YLF crystal (LiYF4) is...
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    Cerium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet (YAG:Ce) crystals are used as phosphors to make white LEDs. YAG, yttria, yttrium lithium fluoride (LiYF4), and yttrium orthovanadate...
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    the lithium-7 isotope, forms the basic constituent of the fluoride salt mixture LiF-BeF2 used in liquid fluoride nuclear reactors. Lithium fluoride is...
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    erbium or titanium ions. Typical hosts include YAG (yttrium aluminium garnet), YLF (yttrium lithium fluoride), sapphire (aluminium oxide) and various glasses...
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    common host materials for neodymium are: YLF (yttrium lithium fluoride, 1047 and 1053 nm), YVO4 (yttrium orthovanadate, 1064 nm), and glass. A particular...
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  • Lithium holmium fluoride is a ternary salt with chemical formula LiHoF4. At temperatures below 1.53 K, it is ferromagnetic described by the Ising model...
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    solid-state laser crystals, including yttrium orthovanadate (Nd:YVO4), yttrium lithium fluoride (Nd:YLF) and yttrium aluminium garnet (Nd:YAG). All these...
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    manufacture of some permanent magnets. Holmium-doped yttrium iron garnet (YIG) and yttrium lithium fluoride have applications in solid-state lasers, and Ho-YIG...
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  • Yb2S3 Yttrium(III) antimonide – YSb Yttrium(III) arsenate – YAsO4 Yttrium(III) arsenide – YAs Yttrium(III) bromide – YBr3 Yttrium(III) fluoride – YF3...
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  • admixture of YH in the moderator may form an anticorrosion barrier of yttrium lithium fluoride. The reactor's vat, piping, heat-exchangers and pumps are to be...
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    (1054–1064 nm), e.g. Nd:YAG (yttrium aluminium garnet), Nd:YAP (yttrium aluminium perovskite), Nd:YLF (yttrium lithium fluoride), Nd:YVO4 (yttrium orthovanadate),...
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  • above 2 g/kg are considered non-toxic. Lanthanoid Neodymium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride Haynes, William M., ed. (2016). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics...
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    neodymium-doped yttrium orthovanadate (Nd:YVO4) or neodymium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet (Nd:YAG), or, less commonly, neodymium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride (Nd:YLF))...
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    Yttrium aluminium garnet (YAG, Y3Al5O12) is a synthetic crystalline material of the garnet group. It is a cubic yttrium aluminium oxide phase, with other...
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    earths, and sometimes the lanthanides or lanthanoids (although scandium and yttrium, which do not belong to this series, are usually included as rare earths)...
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    objects. Laser cooling was also achieved with Ytterbium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride crystals to generate cold spots using lasers to achieve trapping...
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    Pr:YLF laser (category Yttrium compounds)
    Pr3+:LiYF4 laser) is a solid state laser that uses a praseodymium doped yttrium-lithium-fluoride crystal as its gain medium. The first Pr:YLF laser was built in...
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    Alkali metal (redirect from Lithium family)
    except for lithium fluoride (LiF), which is insoluble in water due to its very high lattice enthalpy. The high lattice enthalpy of lithium fluoride is due...
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  • estimates Nematicon Neo-Hookean solid Neodymium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride Neodymium-doped yttrium orthovanadate Neodymium magnet Neon-burning process...
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    properties), and yttrium oxide is more basic still. Salts with strong acids of these metals are soluble, whereas those with weak acids (e.g. fluorides, phosphates...
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    chemical element in 1843. He detected it as an impurity in yttrium oxide (Y2O3). Yttrium and terbium, as well as erbium and ytterbium, are named after...
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    such as atorvastatin and fluoxetine contain C−F bonds. The fluoride ion from dissolved fluoride salts inhibits dental cavities and so finds use in toothpaste...
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  • compounds used are lithium carbonate, Li2CO3, lithium citrate, Li3C6H5O7, lithium sulphate, Li2SO4, and lithium orotate, LiC5H3N2O4·H2O. Lithium is also used...
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    to form dysprosium fluoride, DyF3, or dysprosium chloride, DyCl3. These compounds can be reduced using either calcium or lithium metals in the following...
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    Historically, it has been classified as a rare-earth element, together with yttrium and the lanthanides. It was discovered in 1879 by spectral analysis of...
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    instead of forming a protective oxide coating like aluminium, scandium, yttrium, and lutetium. Lanthanum reacts with the halogens at room temperature to...
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    1016/0022-5088(70)90175-x. Schmidt, F.A.; McMasters, O.D.; Lichtenberg, R.R. (1969). "The yttrium-bismuth alloy system". Journal of the Less Common Metals. 18 (3): 215–220...
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    and Bury grouped scandium and yttrium with lutetium rather than lanthanum (the former two left an empty space below yttrium as lutetium had not yet been...
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    and meteorites. Lutetium usually occurs in association with the element yttrium and is sometimes used in metal alloys and as a catalyst in various chemical...
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