73. Tantalum - Elementymology & Elements Multidict

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Tantalum
Tantaal – Tantal – Tantale – Tántalo – タンタル – Тантал – 鉭
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Multilingual dictionary

Indo-European
Tantalum Latin

— Germanic
Tantaal Afrikaans
Tantal Danish
Tantal German
Tantalum English
Tantal Faroese
Tantaal Frisian (West)
Tantal Icelandic
Tantal Luxembourgish
Tantaal Dutch
Tantal Norwegian
Tantal Swedish

— Italic
Tantal Aragonese
Tantalu Aromanian
Tántalu Asturian
Tàntal Catalan
Tántalo Spanish
Tantale French
Tantali Friulian
Tántalo Galician
Tantalio Italian
Tantàli Lombard
Tantal Occitan
Tântalo Portuguese
Tantal Romanian - Moldovan

— Slavic
Тантал [Tantal] Bulgarian
Tantal Bosnian
Тантал [tantal] Belarusian
Tantal Czech
Tantal Croatian
Tantôl Kashubian
Тантал [Tantal] Macedonian
Tantal Polish
Тантал [Tantal] Russian
Tantal Slovak
Tantal Slovenian
Тантал [Tantal] Serbian
Тантал [tantal] Ukrainian

— Baltic
Tantalas Lithuanian
Tantals Latvian
Tantals Samogitian

— Celtic
Tantal Breton
Tantalwm Welsh
Tantalam Gaelic (Irish)
Tantalam Gaelic (Scottish)
Tantalum Gaelic (Manx)
Tantalum Cornish

— Other Indo-European
Τανταλιο [tantalio] Greek
Տանտալ [tantal] Armenian
Tantal[i] Albanian

— Indo-Iranian/Iranian
Tantal Kurdish
Тантал [tantal] Ossetian
Тантал [Tantal] Tajik

— Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan
ট্যান্টালাম [ṭyānṭālāma] Bengali
تانتالوم [tantalwm] Persian
ટૅન્ટલમનો [ṭenṭalamano] Gujarati
टाण्टलम [ṭāṇṭalama] Hindi

Finno-Ugric
Tantaal Estonian
Tantaali Finnish
Tantál Hungarian
Тантал [Tantal] Komi
Тантал [Tantal] Mari
Тантал [tantal] Moksha
Tantaal Võro

Altaic
Tantal Azerbaijani
Тантал [Tantal] Chuvash
Тантал [tantal] Kazakh
Тантал [Tantal] Kyrgyz
Тантал [tantal] Mongolian
Tantal Turkish
تانتال [tantal] Uyghur
Tantal Uzbek

Other (Europe)
Tantalioa Basque
ტანტალი [tantali] Georgian

Afro-Asiatic
تنتالم [tantālūm] Arabic
טנטלום [tantalum] Hebrew
Tantalum, ²Tantalju Maltese

Sino-Tibetan
Than (鉭) Hakka
タンタル [tantaru] Japanese
탄탈, 2탄탈럼 [tantal, tantalleom] Korean
แทนทาลัม [thaentālam] Thai
Tantali, Tantan Vietnamese
[dan4 / taan2] Chinese

Malayo-Polynesian
Tantalyo Cebuano
Tantalum Indonesian
Tantalum Māori
Tantalum Malay

Other Asiatic
ടാന്റാലം [ṭānṟālam] Malayalam
தந்தாலம் [tantālam] Tamil

Africa
Tantalu Lingala
Tantalamo Sesotho
Tantali Swahili

North-America
Nelnextictepoztli Nahuatl

South-America
Tantalyu Quechua

Creole
Tantalimi Sranan Tongo

Artificial
Tantalo Esperanto

New names
Tantalon Atomic Elements
Capacitium Dorseyville
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Deep gray metal with a pink hue. Very dense and can take on a high polish
melting point 2996 °C; 5425 °F
boiling point 5425 °C; 9797 °F
density 16.65 g/cc; 1039.67 pounds/cubic foot
1802 Anders G. Ekeberg, Sweden
Τανταλος (Tantalos), figure in Greek mythology

History & Etymology

In 1801, Charles Hatchett found in columbite, an ore from Connecticut a new element, which he named Columbium. One year later, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg discovered a new element in Finnish minerals similar to the columbite and named it Tantalum. In 1809 William Hyde Wollaston claimed to have shown Columbium and Tantalum were identical. In 1844, Heinrich Rose showed that Wollaston's claims were false and that not only the element Tantalum was there, but also two new elements which he named after two children of Tantalus: Niobium and Pelopium (see Niobium).

Tantalus
Tantalus (Greek Τάνταλος) was the ruler of a city called either under his name, as "Tantalis", "the city of Tantalus", or as "Sipylus", in reference to Mount Sipylus at the foot of which his city was located and whose ruins were reported to be still visible in the beginning of the Common Era, although few traces remain today. In Greek mythology he was the father of Pelops, Niobe and Broteas, and a son of Zeus and the nymph Plouto.

Tantalus was initially known for having been welcomed to Zeus' table in Olympus, like Ixion. There he is said to have misbehaved and stolen ambrosia and nectar to bring it back to his people, and revealed the secrets of the gods. Tantalus's punishment for his act, now a proverbial term for temptation without satisfaction (the source of the English word "tantalise" – US "tantalize"), was to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches. Whenever he reached for the fruit, the branches raised his intended meal from his grasp. Whenever he bent down to get a drink, the water receded before he could get any (note).

The oxide Ta2O5 is insoluble in acid, and was unable, just as the mythological Tantalos in the Hades, "to quench his thirst"

Ytterby


Gadolinite Road and Tantalium Road in Ytterby, Summer 2009.

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Ytterby, a village in Sweden on the island of Resarö, close to Vaxholm (east of Stockholm) is a deposit of many unusual minerals, containing rare earth and other elements. A Chronological list of discovery of the rare earths and their names and information and illustrations of Ytterby's quarry and a location map is on the Rare Earths page.

Chemistianity 1873
TAYAN
TANTALUM, twin brother to Niobium,
As metal is obtained in black powder;
Heated in Air, it burns to Tantalic Acid.
J. Carrington Sellars, Chemistianity, 1873, p. 156
Further reading
  • Mary Elvira Weeks, Discovery of the Elements, comp. rev. by Henry M. Leicester (Easton, Pa.: Journal of Chemical Education, 1968), pp. 344-351.


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