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Stockholm
59.3294°N 18.0686°E · Q1754
2 English words in this atlas trace back to Stockholm. It sits in Sweden.
Stockholm syndromenoun · 20th century
Well attestedThe syndrome is named for a bank robbery.
Hostages taken during a 1973 robbery in Stockholm defended their captors afterwards, and a criminologist named the pattern for the city.
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holmiumnoun · 1879
Well attestedSweden's capital is on the periodic table under its Latin name, which nobody uses for the city any more.
Per Teodor Cleve separated holmium at Uppsala in 1879 and named it from Holmia, the Latin form of Stockholm, his home city. Marc Delafontaine and Jacques-Louis Soret had independently detected its absorption lines in Geneva the previous year and called it element X. Cleve found two new elements in the same batch of residues: the other was thulium.
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