Talk:Holmium/Archive 1

Applications
The article states that Holmium Oxide is used to add a yellow coloring to glass, although this is true under flourescent lighting, under incandescent lighting the pigmentation is red, as described in an earlier part of the article. Either there is a mthod of synthesis whereby the yellow coloring can be made permanent or the section should be changed appropriately. Also Holmium glass should read Holmium containing glass? Polyamorph (talk) 21:27, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Quibble: "Because holmium can absorb nuclear fission-bred neutrons, it is also used in nuclear control rods and for components for electronic devices." What does the ability to absorb neutrons have to do its' use in electronic devices? c.pergiel (71.117.211.59 (talk) 03:02, 24 January 2010 (UTC))
 * Thanks. Fixed. (no realistic electronic application of holmium is known to me) Materialscientist (talk) 03:27, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Talk
There are so many fields in the element information column right of the article...so why not abundance rates? Geo- and cosmochemical abundance rates are useful. And why not two types of abundance, if there are already 3 types of hardness listed? The reference for toxicity data (ref 23) is questionable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.226.56.2 (talk) 08:24, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

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Use in prostate surgery
Holmium-based lasers are used in certain urological procedures, such as prostate surgery. It is used to widen the urinary channel. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paul Abrahams (talk • contribs) 22:17, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

"Newtonium"
Why does Newtonium redirect to this page? There's no reference to anything called "Newtonium" (which, IIRC, isn't actually the name of an element) or Issac Newton in the article. Purifiedwater 06:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I would also press this question. At a group bar trivia night we had a question about whether "Newtonium" was a legitimate element or not and in browsing the information after that fact it redirected here. Why is this? Muaddib 03:39, 15 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I've redirected newtonium to coronium. See the coronium article for details. --Itub (talk) 16:05, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * This is from a while back indeed, but some of these old redirects come from an old article by the Marks brothers suggesting a new Bayley-pyramid style periodic table and some more imaginative names for the elements (especially things like the self-descriptive technetium and astatine, where danubium and therine were proposed instead). These names had essentially zero adoption outside that one article and there is no point referring to them anywhere, although if there are no other contenders for their titles I suppose the redirects aren't doing any harm. Double sharp (talk) 04:48, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Nice link, it is from 1994. Has it been vindicated? At least for the graphic setup, it has nice extra features. See also: ADOMAH btw, fully quantum-values based. -DePiep (talk) 09:36, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * The one prediction they make based on their table is that Tm and Md should display the +1 oxidation state (since they get pushed into a "If" – that's "one f" – column), and they don't. There is YbO, but I hesitate to call that a prediction of theirs, since it was already known before 1994. So no, I would say it hasn't been vindicated. Double sharp (talk) 11:53, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Misc
Article changed over to new WikiProject Elements format by mav 05:14, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC). Elementbox converted 11:47, 10 July 2005 by Femto (previous revision was that of 13:33, 9 July 2005). 9 July 2005