Ytterbium oxide (rare earth oxides production - from rare earth carbonate concentrate)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.8. Ytterbium is a lanthanide, a rare earth element, that is predominatly obtained from the ion adsorption clays of southern China - representing approximately 98% of world production. Ytterbium oxide (Yb2O3) is used in a number of different applications, including as a radiation source in portable x-ray machines, as an alloy in metallurgy, as a dopant of active media and in high stability atomic clocks. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.