'''Lucium''' was the proposed name for an alleged new element found by chemist Prosper Barrière in 1896 in the mineral monazite.<ref> {{cite journal | year = 1897 | title = Referate | journal = Zeitschrift für anorganische Chemie | volume = 15 |issue=1 | pages = 456–476 | doi = 10.1002/zaac.18970150164 }}</ref><ref> {{cite journal | last1 = H | first1 = J. L. | year = 1896 | title = Notes on Inorganic Chemistry | volume = 4 | issue = 100 | pages = 790–791 | journal = Science | bibcode = 1896Sci.....4..790H | doi = 10.1126/science.4.100.790-a | pmid = 17734842 | url = https://zenodo.org/record/1448153 }}</ref> Later, William Crookes confirmed that the new element was actually an impure sample of yttrium.<ref> {{cite book | last1=Brock |first1=W. H. | year = 2008 | title = William Crookes (1832–1919) and the commercialization of science | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Dd75mKOE4BMC&pg=PA322 | page = 322 | publisher = Ashgate Publishing | isbn = 978-0-7546-6322-5 }}</ref>
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