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Originally Posted by DixieGal
I clicked neptunium and scandium and a few others, going for the oddest letter combos to see what Swanwick made of them. Ytterium. Such a strange word.
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Seeing your post I remembered that I read something about four periodic elements named after a little village in Sweden. It was in Isaac Asimov's "Introduction to Science".
Here is this information, in the Galactic Encyclopedia (a.k.a. Wikipedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ytterby
Regards,
L.