Word: yttrium
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...specialists in San Francisco were also intrigued by a new surgical laser called the YAG (for its components of yttrium, aluminum and garnet). Unlike the argon laser, which has been used by eye surgeons for nearly two decades, the YAG does not produce its effect by burning. Instead, it concentrates light energy into very short, intense pulses that create tiny, 1/10-mm cuts. "It causes a very small explosion," explains French Surgeon Daniele Aron-Rosa, who, along with Swiss Surgeon Franz Fankhauser, is credited with inventing YAG surgery...
From Wood to Yttrium. Among the most pressed are companies in the normally placid furniture industry, which has profited by a substantial return to wooden cabinets for color TV. Many companies have doubled or tripled production, are busy turning out decorator cabinets that can run the cost of a TV set (average: $550) up to $1,600. Both Miller TV Products Co. of High Point, N.C. (which supplies RCA and Motorola), and Drexel Furniture (which supplies Motorola) have greatly stepped up production to meet demand. Small Muntz TV Inc. recently bought into a Michigan cabinetmaker in order to protect...
...supplier of 90% of all the basic glass "bulbs" for color tubes, recently opened a third plant in Indiana to satisfy its customers' appeals for more tubes. Such producers of rare earth as Molybdenum Corp., American Potash & Chemical and Ronson, which supply the metallic elements europium and yttrium for the coatings that brighten color TV tubes, are rushing out orders at $1,000 per pound...
Unofficial Watch. Peter King sent an assistant on a rush trip to the Virgin Islands; soon the aide was back with jugs of sludge precipitated chemically from 2,500 gal. of six-month-old rain water. The stuff was faintly hot, containing the radioactive cerium and yttrium that are typical products of nuclear fission. As of then, King knew he had a quick and easy way to detect nuclear explosions...
...give bigger radiation doses more safely to hard-to-reach parts of the body. Examples: cobalt-60 "bombs," a new cesium-137 unit at M. D. Anderson Hospital, higher-powered X-ray machines and linear-particle accelerators, ingeniously refined ways of implanting radioisotopes such as iridium 192 and yttrium 90 in tumors...