Eponym of the week: Vanadis, a goddess of beauty in Scandinavian mythology, corresponding to the Norse goddess Freya. The element vanadium was named for her, because of the multicolored beauty of its chemical compounds. Most of the other eponymous chemical elements, such as einsteinium, curium and fermium, have a more obvious etymological heritage.

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