Neodymium

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Atomic Number	60
CAS Registry Number	7440-00-8
Chemical Symbol	Nd

History

The atomic number is 60 and the chemical symbol is Nd. The name was originally neodidymium and was later shortened to neodymium which is derived from the Greek neos for new and didymos for twin. It was discovered by the Swedish surgeon and chemist Carl Gustav Mosander in 1841 who called it didymium (or twin) because of its similarity to lanthanium which he had previously discovered two years earlier. In 1885 the Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach separated didymium into two elements. One of which he called neodymium (or new twin).

Holden, Norman E., (2004). History of the origin of the chemical elements and their discoverers. National Nuclear Data Center. Retrieved from http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/content/elements.html

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