Yttrium character illustration

Yttrium

Resistance is futile.

Yttrium’s intellect is out of this world, as they’ll remind you every single day. If you don’t understand their (obviously award-winning) science projects on superconductors, they’ll be happy to enlighten you in a vaguely condescending manner. And if you make the mistake of asking about their hometown, prepare for a TED talk on glorious Ytterby, chemistry’s capital, the richest source of elemental discoveries on Earth…okay, we’ll stop them there.

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  solid metal | transition metals
rare-earth metal used in superconductors, materials with no electrical resistance; found in unusually high concentrations in moon rock; one of four (!) elements named after the town of Ytterby
Mini periodic table