Bizarre Elements

In The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow Side, Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna share the stories of scientists who discovered, often falsely, elements so bizarre they could have never actually found a home on the current version of the periodic table.

1800-01-01 00:00:00

Andronia and Thelyke

Jakob Joseph Winterl

1855-01-01 00:00:00

Pantogen

Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs

1855-01-01 00:00:00

Elements A and B, Kalidium, and Oxidium

Thomas Carnelley and Charles Skeele Palmer

1867-01-01 00:00:00

Geocoronium and Aurorium

Alfred Wegener, B. Smith Hopkins, and Jonas Anders Ångstrӧm

1886-01-01 00:00:00

Protyle

Sir William Crookes and John William Nicholson

1887-01-01 00:00:00

Coronium

Raffaello Nasini, Francesco Anderlini, and Roberto Salvadori

1890-01-01 00:00:00

Damarium

Karl Lauer and Paul Antsch

1896-01-01 00:00:00

Kosmium and Neokosmium

Bernhard Hans Kosmann

1898-01-01 00:00:00

Etherium

Charles Brush

1915-01-01 00:00:00

Neutronium

William Draper Harkins and Andreas von Antropoff

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