It's Elemental: Terbium
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It's Elemental - The Element Terbium 8.23 grams per cubic centimeter Named for the village of Ytterby, Sweden. The mineral gadolinite ((Ce, La, Nd, Y) ), discovered in a quarry near the town of Ytterby, Sweden, has been the source of a great number of rare earth elements. In 1843, Carl Gustaf Mosander, a Swedish chemist, was able to separate gadolinite into three materials, which he named yttria, erbia and terbia. As might be expected considering the similarities between their names and properties, scientists soon confused erbia and terbia and, by 1877, had reversed their names. What Mosander called erbia is now called terbia and visa versa. From these two substances, Mosander discovered two new elements, terbium and
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