Goddesses

Scandinavian goddess, Vanadis) Vanadium was first discovered by del Rio in 1801. Unfortunately, a French chemist incorrectly declared that del Rio s new element was only impure chromium. Del Rio thought himself to be mistaken and accepted the French chemists s statement. 

The element was rediscovered in 1830 by Sefstrom, who named the element in honor of the Scandinavian goddess, Vanadis, because of its beautiful multicolored compounds. It was isolated in nearly pure form by Roscoe, in 1867, who reduced the chloride with hydrogen. 

Palladium was named after the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered at about the same time. Pallas was the Greek goddess of wisdom. 

Vanadium was first discovered in 1801 by del Rio while he was examining a lead ore obtained from Zimapan, Mexico. The ore contained a new element and, because of the red color imparted to its salts on heating, it was named erythronium (redness). The identification of the element vanadium did not occur until 1830 when it was isolated from cast iron processed from an ore from mines near Taberg, Sweden. It was given the name vanadium after Vanadis, the Norse goddess of beauty. Shordy after this discovery, vanadium was shown to be identical to the erythronium that del Rio had found several years eadier. 

A. M. del Rio in 1801 claimed to have discovered the previously unknown element 23 in a sample of Mexican lead ore and, because of the red colour of the salts produced by acidification, he called it erythronium. Unfortunately he withdrew his claim when, 4 years later, it was (incorrectly) suggested by the Frenchman, H. V. Collett-Desotils, that the mineral was actually basic lead chromate. In 1830 the element was rediscovered by N. G. Sefstrom in some Swedish iron ore. Because of the richness and variety of colours found in its compounds he called it vanadium after Vanadis, the Scandinavian goddess of beauty. One year later F. Wohler established the identity of vanadium and erythro-nium. The metal itself was isolated in a reasonably pure form in 1867 by H. E. Roscoe who reduced the chloride with hydrogen, and he was... 

In 1803, in the course of his study of platinum, Wollaston isolated and identified palladium from the mother liquor remaining after platinum had been precipitated as (NH4)2PtCl6 from its solution in aqua regia. He named it after the newly discovered asteroid, Pallas, itself named after the Greek goddess of wisdom (ytaXXd iov, palladion, of Pallas). 

Soudiern Comfort s patron saint, of course, is Janis Joplin, die Texan boa-bedecked, crash-and-bum blues-rock goddess of the late 1960s—a truth so enormous that Brown-Forman is afraid to deny it. 

Other lore attributed to elder are that it is a feminine tree, linked with Venus and The Great Goddess, dedicated to Thor and associated with the element of water. 

Glauber, Johann Rudolf. The complete works of Rudolph Glauber trans Chris. Packe. The hellish goddess Perosperine. R.A.M.S. CD-ROM Vol. 10. Richardson (TX) Restorers of Alchemical Manuscripts Society, 1983. 

Knight, Gareth. The Rose Cross and the Goddess the quest for the eternal feminine principle. Inner Traditions, 1985. ISBN 0892811048... 

Lemer, Isha and Tara McKinney. The triple goddess tarot the power of the major arcana, chakra healing, and the divine feminine / Isha Lemer, with Tara McKinney illustrated by Mara Friedman. Rochester (VT) Bear Co, 2002. xiv, 231 p. ISBN 1-87918-194-0... 

Bolen, Jean Shinoda. Goddesses in everywoman a new psychology of women. Harper Row, 1984. 334p. 

Name derived from Selene (Greek goddess of the moon was meant to show the close relationship to the previously discovered tellurium (from tellus (Latin = Earth))... 

Name derived from Vanadis (surname of the Nordic goddess of beauty and fertility Freyja), found in colored ores... 

Name derived from Tellus (Roman goddess of the Earth)... 

Ruck, Carl A. 2006. Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess Secrets of Eleusis. Berkeley Ronin. 

Choice b is incorrect because a choice dealing with mankind alone is too narrow for a definition of eris, which deals with the entire universe. Choice c is incorrect because it only deals with one action of the personified concept in goddess form. Choice d has no support. 

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