March 22, 2009
leenakuhrubcussfur
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Some places have contributed one each to it. Just one university of repute has been capable of contributing one from its side. Furthermore, some distinguished scientists of the 20th century were also only capable of contributing just one each to it.
But a little mine in the village of ‘x’, which lies in the district marked in red, has the unique distinction of contributing nearly half a dozen to it, all by itself !
Solve for x.
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Ytterby (x), a small village in Vaxholm district of the Stockholm archipelago (marked in yellow), has a quarry of the same name(Ytterby) which has been the ‘inspiration’ behind naming the following elements:
yttrium (Y), ytterbium (Yb), terbium (Tb) and erbium (Er).
Some other elements which have supposedly been named after this quarry are gadolinium (Gd) (named after gadolinite, which is named after Professor Johan Gadolin), holmium (Ho) (from the Latin name for Stockholm), and thulium (Tm) (Thule is an old Latin word for the Nordic countries).
It’s the only place to have ‘inspired’ so many elements.
PS: The title of the question- “Leenakuhrubcussfur” was created as a mnemonic to learn the elements of the first group – Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Fr , when introduced to the periodic table, back in school :D
the place is ytterby..
chemical elements..
The red city in the map is Vaxholm, and the village that we are talking about is Ytterby, which has contributed to 4 chemical elements – yttrium (Y), ytterbium (Yb), terbium (Tb) and erbium (Er).
Elements named after places – Cf, Am
Elements named after University – berkeley (Bk)
Elements named after scientists – Cm, Fm, Md, Es etc.
Ah!!!!…. Old days when I used to remember the Alkali metals…..
leenakuhrubcussfur…..Damn I missed the question!!
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