Editing Xenotime (section)

== Etymology ==
The name ''xenotime'' is from the [[Greek language|Greek]] words {{Transliteration|grc|kenós}} ({{wikt-lang|grc|κενός}}) 'vain' and {{Transliteration|grc|timē}} ({{wikt-lang|grc|τιμή}}) 'honor', akin to 'vainglory'. It was coined by French mineralogist [[François Sulpice Beudant]] as a rebuke of another scientist, Swedish chemist [[Jöns Jacob Berzelius]], for the latter's premature claim to have found in the mineral a new [[chemical element]] (later understood to be previously discovered yttrium). The criticism was blunted, as over time ''kenotime'' was misread and misprinted ''xenotime''<ref name=Lost/><ref name=Mindat/><ref name=Handbook/> with the error suggesting the etymology {{Transliteration|grc|xénos}} ({{wikt-lang|grc|ξένος}}) + {{Transliteration|grc|timē}} ({{lang|grc|τιμή}})  as 'different honor'. Xenotime was first described for an occurrence in [[Vest-Agder]], [[Norway]] in 1824.<ref name=Mindat/>