Tantalum was discovered by Anders Ekeberg at 1802 in Sweden. Origin of name: from the Greek word "Tantalos" meaning "father of Niobe" (Greek mythology, (tantalum is closely related to niobium in the periodic table) ... History: meaning of name; discovery; and history of the element...
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The Element Tantalum; [Click for Isotope Data] ... History and Uses: ... Tantalum was discovered by Anders Gustaf Ekenberg, a Swedish chemist, in 1802 in minerals obtained from Ytterby, Sweden. Many scientists believed that he had only discovered an allotrope of niobium, an element that is chemically similar to tantalum.
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Tantalum (pronounced /ˈtæntələm/ , TAN -təl-əm ) (formerly tantalium , tan- TAL -ee-əm ) is a chemical element with the symbol Ta and atomic number 73. A rare, hard, blue-g...
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One year later, in 1802, A. G. Ekeberg discovered a new element in Finnish minerals similar to "columbite" and gave it the name tantalum. This denomination derives from the Greek god Tantalus, as a reference to the enormous difficulty in dissolving the mineral in acids.
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History; (Gr. Tantalos, mythological character, father of Niobe) Discovered in 1802 by Ekeberg, but many chemists thought niobium and tantalum were identical elements until Rowe in 1844, and Marignac, in 1866, showed that niobic and tantalic acids were two different acids.
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Tantalum was discovered in 1802, by a Swedish chemist named ... Swedish chemist, isolated tantalum. At the time, a lot of chemists ... believed that niobium and tantalum were the same element.
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Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767-1813) discovered and named tantalum in 1802. He was born in Sweden and graduated from the University of Uppsala in 1788. He embarked on a teaching career at Uppsala where he presented chemical expositions and analysed minerals.
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About the chemical element Tantalum, its symbol, atomic number and weight, who discovered it and when. ... You Are Here: Trivia » Chemical Elements: Their History and Uses » Chemical Elements History and Information Tantalum...
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