April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
5h 20m
English

When Ekeberg named tantalum, he’d Tantalus in mind,
’Tis soft ’n’ dense, and hard to melt, and quite inert you’ll find.
They’ve screwed its plates to cracked skull bone,
GROUP 5 TRANSITION METAL
In 1802, the Swedish chemist Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767–1813) claimed the discovery of a new element. He named it tantalum (after Tantalus, a king in Greek mythology) because of its reluctance to dissolve in acids. Tantalus was condemned by the gods of Olympus for (among ...