Jargonium

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A rejected name for hafnium. obsolete, uncountable

    "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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"These various spectra of jargonium are all of a very marked character, quite unlike those due to any other element in similar conditions."

Etymology

From jargon + -ium; see jargon (“a variety of zircon”). Doublet of zirconium.

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