Chemical Elements · Question
What element has the symbol 'Pr'?
Answer
Praseodymium
The story behind the answer
Pr is the chemical symbol for praseodymium, a soft, silvery lanthanide (rare-earth) element. Its symbol mirrors the element’s name: Pra-seodymium → Pr. By contrast, Promethium is Pm, Protactinium is Pa, and Palladium is Pd.
Praseodymium was isolated in 1885 by Carl Auer von Welsbach when he split “didymium” into neodymium and