nipponium

nipponium

See also: Nipponium

English

Etymology

Nippon +‎ -ium

Noun

nipponium (uncountable)

1. (dated) A chemical element, supposed to be the then-undiscovered technetium, but later identified as rhenium.
   • 1923, Ulick R. Evans, Metals and metallic compounds (page 362)

     Element between molybdenum and ruthenium (perhaps Ogawa's nipponium)

   • 2008, Proceedings of the Japan Academy: physical and biological sciences (volume 84, page 237)

     Tiede at Berlin University told Toshiyuki Majima that nipponium might be rhenium when the latter visited him in 1938.