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columbium

noun

Etymology

From Columbus + -ium, named after Christopher Columbus by the element’s discoverer, Charles Hatchett.

  1. borrowed from columbus
  2. formed as columbium — “Columbus + -ium”

Definitions

  1. Former name of niobium.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for columbium. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA