Well attestedNamed from the place
scandium
noun · first attested 1879
Mendeleev predicted it as eka-boron and a Swede found it, so it was named for the whole peninsula.
The chemical element with atomic number 21, symbol Sc.
64.7796°N 14.7609°E · Q21195
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1879
- Part of speech
- noun
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Scandinavia
- In English
scandium
Lars Fredrik Nilson isolated the oxide at Uppsala in 1879 while working through euxenite and gadolinite, and named the element from Scandia, the Latin name for Scandinavia. Per Teodor Cleve recognized within months that it matched the eka-boron Mendeleev had predicted in 1871. Scandium is not rare in the crust but almost never concentrates, which keeps it expensive.
Denmark
All 6 entries 5 more words from Denmark
danishThe pastry is named for the wrong country.DenmarkCopenhagen plankA groin exercise carries a Danish city's name and nobody agrees why.Copenhagensomething is rotten in the state of DenmarkHamlet does not say it; a guard on the battlements does.Denmarkcream HavartiThe cheese is named after a farm outside Copenhagen where a woman reverse-engineered European cheesemaking.HolteHavartiThe cheese is named for a farm, seventy years after the woman who developed it worked there.Holte