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holmium
noun · first attested 1879
Sweden's capital is on the periodic table under its Latin name, which nobody uses for the city any more.
A soft silvery rare earth metal, element 67, with the highest magnetic moment of any naturally occurring element.
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
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- 1879
- Part of speech
- noun
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Stockholm
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holmium
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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