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jargonium

noun

Etymology

From jargon + -ium; see jargon (“a variety of zircon”). Doublet of zirconium.

  1. inherited from jargoun
  2. suffixed as jargonium — “jargon + ium”

Definitions

  1. A rejected name for hafnium.

    • These various spectra of jargonium are all of a very marked character, quite unlike those due to any other element in similar conditions.
    • In the same year as the jargonium announcement, 1869, Arthur Herbert Church (1834–1915) announced the discovery of a new element associated with zircon.

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