Name       : Yttrium
Symbol     : Y
Atomic #   : 39
Atom weight: 88.906
Melting P. : 1522
Boiling P. : 5338
Oxidation  : +3
Pronounced : IT-ri-em
From       : Swedish village, Ytterby
Identified : Johan Gadolin in 1789
Appearance : Silvery, ductile, fairly reactive metal
Note       : A rare-earth metal
             
[Properties]

  Yttrium is a silvery, ductile metal. Powdered samples burn easily, and
thin turnings of the metal from metalworking lathes have been known to
ignite spontaneously.
  Yttrium is a Group-IIIB element. Among other things, this means it is a
fairly active and moderately lightweight rare-earth metal. Some chemists
still argue that scandium (Sc) is not a rare-earth element and that
yttrium is the first on the table and the lightest of all the rare earths.