[Ads-l] Antedating of "Uranium"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
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uranium (OED 1790 [Oct.])

1790 _Critical Review_ July 442 (Google Books)

It is in the green glimmer of the Saxons that M. Klaproth has found his new metal the uranite, or, as he since called it more correctly, the uranium.

Fred Shapiro

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