Element number 21, Scandium, was named after Scandinavia.
Scandium.
Scandium.
The element scandium was named after the country Scandinavia.
the element named by the scandonavians Sefström and Berzelius was the element Vanadium, in honor of Vanadis,the Scandinavian goddess Freya
In 1879, Lars Fredrik Nilson found a new element in the minerals euxenite and gadolinite from Scandinavia. Hence, he named it 'scandium', from the Latin word 'Scandia'meaning "Scandinavia".
Strontium was named by Humphry Davy (inventor of the mining safety lamp that bears his name) in 1808. He isolated the element by electolysis and named it after Strontian, a mining village in Scotland where it was first found.
It is named after Scandinavia, a region in northern Europe where it was historically mined. It was identified as an element in 1879 when Lars Nilson isolated scandium oxide from euxenite and gadolinite ores. It was not until 1937 that it was isolated in pure metallic form.
Nilson prepared 2 grams of scandium oxide of high purity. He named the element scandium, from the Latin Scandia meaning "Scandinavia".
The chemical element Scandium is known only under that name !It is derived from the Latin word Scandia which means Scandinavia (the origin of this rare metal).
Scandium, which is named for Scandinavia, a region in Europe that includes the countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.
In Norway.
The name scandium is derived from Scandinavia.