a malleable silver-white metallic element of the lanthanide series. Symbol: Ho; atomic no: 67; atomic wt: 164.93032; valency: 3; relative density: 8.795; melting pt: 1474°C; boiling pt: 2700°C
Word origin
C19: from New Latin Holmia Stockholm
holmium in American English
(ˈhoʊlmiəm)
noun
a trivalent, silvery chemical element, one of the rare-earth elements: symbol, Ho; at. no., 67
Word origin
ModL < earlier holmia, so named (1879) by P. T. Cleve (see cleveite), its second discoverer (first was L. Soret, Fr chemist, in 1878), after Holmia, Latinized name of Stockholm, his native city + -ium