Ich komme aus Paraguay und ein Diagramm, das das Periodensystem und die Länder zeigt, die die Elemente entdeckt haben, ging auf Twitter viral (X); Ich beschloss, nach einem genaueren Bild zu suchen, und es stellte sich heraus, dass Schweden 18 Elemente entdeckte.
Ich kann verstehen, dass es in Großbritannien 19, in Deutschland 18 und in Frankreich 16 gab – schließlich waren sie damals Imperien mit hervorragenden Universitäten und riesigen Bevölkerungszahlen. Ich weiß, dass Schweden Geld hatte, aber waren sie wirklich kompetent genug, um 18 davon zu entdecken?
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An abundance of land and earth minerals perhaps
take THAT denmark, you’re not even on the list…
SWEDEN ARE THE GOATS
Competent enough?
The home of Anders Celsius??
Yes that kind of celsius…
~~Almost all of them~~ are due to Sweden having an iron mine on Ytterby which just so happened to have a high amount of rare earth elements which were therefore discovered there.
It even has its own element named after it, ytterbium.
*Edit: A lot of them but not that many.*
Oh definitely. Sweden have quite a big focus on science and discovery in the beginning of 1740 that has basically formed the scientific society Sweden is today.
We were, and are, very competent. It’s all thanks to our mines (Mostly Ytterby mine) and widespread literacy etc. of that time. It’s not like it requires mountains of money to discover many of them.
Sweden has had massive mining operations digging up strange ores, especially one quarry near Stockholm called Ytterby, which alone yielded seven new elements. We also had pioneering scientists like Berzelius and Scheele who had the analytical skills to isolate what was inside the rocks we mined up.
Basically big mining industry + smart scientists
I’m so glad the Swedes discovered oxygen. I can’t imagine how difficult it must have been to breathe before 1771
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Yes we were competent enough. Then and now. Just google Swedish inventors or modern Swedish companies. Swedish research and Swedish industry
Sweden was a medium sized serious power with a lot of well-known scientists in the enlightenment era especially. Go down an AI/Wikipedia rabbit hole and you’ll find a lot there.
(This comment was written in Paraguay btw by a Swedish speaker, funny coincidence).
No longer a Super power, Sweden could focus on other areas than war.
We are just that good
I can’t answer how, but Sweden has a lot of innovations despite being such a small country with a relatively small population – [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Swedish_inventions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Swedish_inventions)
Holmium & Ytterbium har sina namn efter Stockholm and Ytterby, men ingen av dem upptäcktes först av svenskar tydligen.
„Holmium upptäcktes först av de schweiziska kemisterna [Jacques-Louis Soret](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Louis_Soret) och Marc Delafontaine 1878 och kort därefter, oberoende av denna upptäckt, 1879 av den svenske kemisten och geologen [Per Teodor Cleve](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Teodor_Cleve) i mineral från [Ytterby gruva](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ytterby_gruva) i [Stockholms skärgård](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholms_skärgård) och är uppkallat efter [Stockholm](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm).“ – Wikipedia
We are just that good.
And how many elements did Paraguay discover? 🤣
Did sweden discover oxygen? Did sweden maybe even invent oxygen as well?
Becaus we rule
[Tom Scott did a video about this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6lGe5jgZgI)
Don’t the facts speak for themselves here? It’s not like it takes world domination to build up institutions focused on science and research. All it takes is dedication, determination, organisation and of course investment but that investment doesn’t have to be absurdly large. It has to be enough for it to sustain itself and allow the research to continue until it produces scientific value. In our case it most certainly did.
I can say, with some nationalistic pride, that Sweden was lucky to have had a lot of people who were „äkta snillen“. True geniuses in English. People who spent most of their lives devouted to discover the inner workings of our common world.
Nothing to do with Sweden but it’s sad, in a way, that Poland takes only half the credit of discovering the element named after itself. Gotta love the Skłodowska-Curies
Ytterby represent
Built different, we are simply just better than the rest
Finland & Danmark: Hahaa, we got on board but Norway didn’t!
Swedes are just built like that
We were once a great country