Who found erbium?

Answer 1

erbium was founded by Mosander who discovered it in ytterby in a town of Sweden.

in 1842 monsander separated ytteria found in the mineral gadolonite he did three fractions which he called yttria, erba, and terbia. the names erbia and terbia became confusedin tgis early period. After 1860 monsanders terbia was known as erbia and after 1877 the earlier known erbia became terbia. The erbia of this period was later shown to consist of five oxides now known as erbia, scandia, holmia, thulia and ytterbia

By 1905 georges urbian and Charles James independently succeeded in isolating fairly pure er 2o3 klemm and bommer first produced reasonably pure erbium metal in 1934 by reducing the anhyxdrous chloride with potassium vapor

Answer 2

mainly in the united states and china in some kind of sand that contains other rare earth elements. this is info i im not 100 percent sure of

Answer 3

Erbium was discovered by Swedish chemist Carl Gustaf Mosander in 1843. He isolated erbium from the mineral gadolinite.