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Løvøya, Telemark
Løvøya
is an
island
in
Ormefjorden
in
Porsgrunn
municipality
,
Norway
.
On
the island
Morten Thrane Esmark
found a
black
mineral
which was sent to
Swedish
chemist
Jöns Jakob Berzelius
for
examination
in
1828
for further
analysis
.
Berzelius
determined
that it contained a new
element
, which he named
thorium
after
Thor
, the
Norse
god of thunder
.