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rafaelmelhem | 3 years ago

Would Thorium be part of that list as well?

Edit: I kinda know that because I have some weird passion about the elements of periodic table and because I'm reading "Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of The Elements From Arsenic To Zinc" which I really recommend!

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Majestic121|3 years ago

Indeed, good catch : > Thorium was discovered in 1828 by the Norwegian amateur mineralogist Morten Thrane Esmark and identified by the Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius, who named it after Thor, the Norse god of thunder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium

robin_reala|3 years ago

There’s also tungsten: “tung” is heavy, and “sten” stone in Swedish.