Ytterbium character illustration

Ytterbium

There’s no such thing as bad press!

As head reporter for The 118 Periodical, Ytterbium has a knack for sensing newsworthy stories. Only problem is, nothing that happens at the Academy is ever newsworthy enough for him. So he’ll just make things up. Explosions in the teacher’s lounge! Secret laser weapons in the basement! And more—in the entire history of the Periodical, there have been three articles titled “BREAKING NEWS: MAJOR EARTHQUAKE WILL HIT ACADEMY 118,” and zero actual earthquakes.

70
Yb
  solid metal | lanthanides
used in pressure sensors to measure earthquakes and explosions
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