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by ncmncm
1553 days ago
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Ytterbium used to be (carefully) splattered all over the screen of every color TV, to fluoresce red. Erbium is used in nanogram quantity in optical fibers to amplify signals purely optically. You shine a light on a fiber doped with it and the signal gets stronger. |
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