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		flowerthoughts 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Researchers develop molecular qubits that communic... Ytterbium, Yttrium, Terbium, and Erbium were all named after a village in Sweden that had a mine: Ytterby We are happy that Rbium didn't become the next name of choice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ytterby The mine closed down long ago. Today, it's a relatively expensive location for villas.

victorbjorklund 13 days ago | [–]

Grew up there! Always feelt so strange that those were named after where I grew up.

jensgk 13 days ago | [–]

You should make a separate HN post about this :-)

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