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Even articles by Mary Elvira Weeks on the discovery of tellurium, published in the Journal of Chemical Education in 1932, [5] and 1935 [6] quote two different locations of his birth: one in Vienna, Archduchy of Austria and the other Hermannstadt, Principality of Transylvania (present-day Sibiu, Romania). A newer biography on the topic makes ...
Tellurium was also discovered independently by Hungarian Pál Kitaibel in 1789. Mueller sent some of his mineral to Klaproth in 1796. Klaproth isolated the new substance and confirmed the identification of the new element tellurium in 1798. He credited Mueller as its discoverer, and suggested that the heavy metal be named "tellus", Latin for ...
Tellurium dioxide is formed by heating tellurium in air, where it burns with a blue flame. [43] Tellurium trioxide, β-TeO 3, is obtained by thermal decomposition of Te(OH) 6. The other two forms of trioxide reported in the literature, the α- and γ- forms, were found not to be true oxides of tellurium in the +6 oxidation state, but a mixture ...
Klaproth mistakenly identified a uranium oxide obtained from pitchblende as the element itself and named it after the recently discovered planet Uranus. [95] [96] 22 Titanium: 1791 W. Gregor: 1825 J. Berzelius: Gregor found an oxide of a new metal in ilmenite; Klaproth independently discovered the element in rutile in 1795 and named it.
helium: named for the Sun where it was discovered by spectral analysis, being associated with the deity Helios, iridium: named for the Greek goddess Iris, tellurium: named for the Roman goddess of the earth, Tellus Mater, niobium: named for Niobe, a character of Greek mythology, vanadium: named for Vanadis, another name for Norse goddess Freyja,
Selenium is named after the Greek goddess of the moon, Selene, to match the previously discovered element tellurium, whose name comes from the Latin word telus, meaning earth. Polonium is named after Marie Curie's country of birth, Poland. [7] Livermorium is named for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. [53]
A newly discovered eel-like creature that slithered across the seas some 469 million years ago has been named after the high priest of heavy metal — Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi.
However, the lack of tellurium compounds in the Falun Mine minerals eventually led Berzelius to reanalyze the red precipitate, and in 1818 he wrote a second letter to Marcet describing a newly found element similar to sulfur and tellurium. Because of its similarity to tellurium, named for the Earth, Berzelius named the new element after the Moon.