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Elements with names from Swedish

Sweden punches above its weight in element etymology. The village of Ytterby and its feldspar mine alone gave names to four rare-earth elements (yttrium, terbium, erbium, ytterbium), and holmium takes its name from Holmia, the Latin form of Stockholm.

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No. Symbol Element Original word Meaning Name source Named by
39 Y Yttrium Ytterby Ytterby Place
64 Gd Gadolinium Gadolin Johan Gadolin Person
65 Tb Terbium Ytterby Ytterby Place
68 Er Erbium Ytterby Ytterby Place
70 Yb Ytterbium Ytterby Ytterby Place
74 W Tungsten tung sten Heavy stone Properties Torbern Bergman (1781)