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What
the name means:
The name holmium derives from the Latin
word for Stockholm, holmia.
It was from a quarry near Stockholm that a
black mineral, which was named ytterite (gadolinite),
that contained holmium, was found.
Who
identified
holmium?
Holmium was identified
by the French scientist,
Jacques-Louis Soret in
1878.
About
holmium: Holmium
is one of the members of the group of
elements know as the rare earths. There are
sixteen elements in this group. The word
“earth” was used to describe the oxide of
metals. The word “rare” was applied to
these sixteen elements because it was
believed that their metal oxides were not
present in any great quantity in the
Earth’s crust. In fact, for most of the
elements in this group, this is not the
case. Their metal oxides are quite
abundant, although they often occur mixed
with other compounds. |
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