Sweden, and more specifically the village of Ytterby (near Vaxholm?) in [Stockholm's archipelago]?, has played an important role in the history of rare-earth?s since many of them were first discovered there, e.g. gadolinium (named after Professor [Johan Gadolin]?), holmium (latin for Stockholm), thulium (Thule is an old word for the Nordic countries) and, of course, ytterbium, erbium, terbium and yttrium; all were named after Ytterby itself.
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