| Origin of Name |
From the Latin word holm, or Stockholm |
| Date and Place of Discovery |
In 1878 in France -
spectroscopically
In 1879 in Sweden |
| Discovered by |
Jacques-Louis Soret and
Marc Delafontaine and
independently in 1879 by Per Teodor Cleve |
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Common Compounds |
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| Interesting facts |
- It is soft and malleable.
- It resists corrosion fairly well.
- It is not found freely in nature, but is found in minerals like
monazite and
gadolinite.
- It is commercially extracted via
ion exchange from monazite sand, but it's
not easy to separate from other rare earth metals.
- It is stable in dry air at room temperature.
- In moist air or at higher temperatures, it will oxidize quickly.
- It has the highest
magnetic moment.
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| Common Uses |
- Magnetic poles
- Nuclear control rods
- Solid state lasers
- Microwaves
- Coloring glass yellow
- Spectrophotometers
- Cubic zirconia
- Medically reduction of kidney stones
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