[Ads-l] Antedating of "Uranium"

[dave@wilton.net]

I've got 1789, but in German.
 
[ https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/uranium-pitchblende ]( https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/uranium-pitchblende ) 
 
 
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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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