Definition of "yttria" []

• See yttrium oxide. (noun)

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• "Solid oxide electrolyte 13 is sheet of ceramic material, such as yttria stabilized zirconia."
• "Already Gadolin had reckoned with the possibility that the yttria isolated by him was not a simple substance and it proved indeed later to consist of several oxides."
• "In this mineral - later called gadolinite, after him - he had found a hitherto unknown earth, the so-called yttria."