Actually, Lithium was discovered as a part of a mineral in Sweden in 1800. This mineral was LiAlSi4O10, which is lithium aluminum silicate. In 1817 Johan August Arfwedson, then working in the laboratory of the chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius, detected the presence of a new element while analyzing this mineral. This element was then named Lithium.
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A highly radioactive metal named FRANCIUM was named after France.
It was named after Mary because MAry lived in Sweeden for 17 years of her life.
Stockholm Street in Brooklyn was named for the Stockholm family, not the capital of Sweden. Abraham and Andrew Stockholm owned land in Bushwick in the 19th century.
the element named by the scandonavians Sefström and Berzelius was the element Vanadium, in honor of Vanadis,the Scandinavian goddess Freya
The element strontium is named after the village of Strontian in Scotland, where it was first discovered in the mineral strontianite.
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I'm curious as to why you think elements have "slogans".How about "Erbium ... ferromagnetic below 19K since the Big Bang (more or less)!" or "Erbium, easiest to spell of the four elements named after some obscure village in Sweden!"
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.
The element with chemical symbol No is Nobelium. It is named after influential scientist Alfred Nobel who invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize. Nobelium is a synthetic, radioactive element in the unofficial Ytterbium family. It is also an Actinide and resides next to Mendelevium (named after the inventor of the Periodic Table) and Lawrencium (named after scientist Ernest Lawrence).
Yttrium got its name from a town in Sweden named Ytterby. The element was discovered close to that town, and Yttrium was named after it.
Strontium - (Sr) is named after Strontian (pronounced Strawn-TEE-an, not Stronshan) a village on the Ardgour peninsula in the West Highlands.
The address of the New Sweden Historic Village is: 116 Station Rd, New Sweden, ME 04762
Ytterbium, Erbium, and Terbium are all named after Ytterby, Sweden.
Ytterbium is named after the Swedish village of Ytterby, where the mineral containing this element was originally discovered.
The web address of the New Sweden Historic Village is: http://www.maineswedishcolony.info