[Ads-l] Antedating of "Radium"

[Shapiro, Fred]

radium (OED 1899)

1898 _San Francisco Chronicle_ 28 Dec. 1/3 (Newspapers.com)  Dr. Becquerel has announced to the Academy of Sciences the discovery of a new chemical substance which has close affinity to barium. Its discovereres, MM. Curie and Bremona, have named it radium.

Fred Shapiro

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