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By the same method as had succeeded with aluminium (reduction of the chloride by potassium) Wohler in 1828 obtained metallic beryllium and yttrium.
Additionally, part of the family of soft ferrites, are the microwave ferrites, e.g. yttrium iron garnet.
Ekeberg discovered an element, tantalum, in some Swedish yttrium minerals.
This "new earth" turned out to be nothing more nor less than a basis yttrium phosphate.
In its character yttrium is closely allied to, and in nature is always associated with, cerium, lanthanum, didymium and erbium (see Rare Earths).