Eugène Anatole Demarçay discovers a new rare-earth…

1896 CE

Eugène Anatole Demarçay discovers a new rare-earth metal in 1896.

A spectrum specialist, he suspects samples of the recently discovered element samarium are contaminated with an unknown element, which he will isolate in 1901. naming its europium, for Europe.

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