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| | It's Elemental - The Element Erbium |
 | | In 1843, Carl Gustaf Mosander, a Swedish chemist, was able to separate gadolinite into three materials, which he named yttria, erbia and terbia. |
 | | As might be expected considering the similarities between their names and properties, scientists soon confused erbia and terbia and, by 1877, had reversed their names. |
 | | Erbia, the renamed material that Mosander discovered in 1843, is erbium oxide (Er), one of erbium's compounds. |
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