What does jargonium mean?
Jargonium means (obsolete) A rejected name for hafnium..
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(obsolete) A rejected name for hafnium..
These various spectra of jargonium are all of a very marked character, quite unlike those due to any other element in similar conditions.
In the same year as the jargonium announcement, 1869, Arthur Herbert Church (1834–1915) announced the discovery of a new element associated with zircon.
Sorby announced, in 1869, the discovery of a new element – Jargonium – by spectroscopic analysis, but was forced in the following year to withdraw his claim as it was found that the interpretation of the spectrum was more complicated than he had supposed.
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Jargonium means (obsolete) A rejected name for hafnium..
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These various spectra of jargonium are all of a very marked character, quite unlike those due to any other element in similar conditions.
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