Løvøya, Telemark

Håøya seen together with other islands.

Løvøya is an island in Ormefjorden in Porsgrunn municipality, Norway.

On the island Morten Thrane Esmark found a black mineral which was sent to Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius for examination in 1828 for further analysis. Berzelius determined that it contained a new element, which he named thorium after Thor, the Norse god of thunder.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Weeks, Mary Elvira (1932). "The discovery of the elements. XI. Some elements isolated with the aid of potassium and sodium: Zirconium, titanium, cerium, and thorium". Journal of Chemical Education 9 (7): 1231. Bibcode:1932JChEd...9.1231W. doi:10.1021/ed009p1231.
  2. ↑ Berzelius, J. J. (1829). "Untersuchung eines neues Minerals und einer darin erhalten zuvor unbekannten Erde (Investigation of a new mineral and of a previously unknown earth contained therein)". Annalen der Physik und Chemie 16 (7): 385–415. Bibcode:1829AnP....92..385B. doi:10.1002/andp.18290920702. (modern citation: Annalen der Physik, vol. 92, no. 7, pp. 385–415)
  3. ↑ Marshall, J.L.; Marshall, V.R. (2001). "Rediscovery of the Elements- Thorium-Løvøya, Langesundsfjord, Norway" (PDF). The Hexagon 93: 70–73.

Coordinates: 59°03′24″N 9°44′23″E / 59.056799°N 9.739666°E / 59.056799; 9.739666


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