Word: berzelium
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Carolinium, Berzelium...
Charles Baskerville was the first American to discover a new element. He established the fact that thorium, hitherto supposed to be an element is really a combination of two substances called by him carolinium after the State of North Carolina and Berzelium after Berzelius a Swedish chemist who discovered thorium nearly a century ago. These new elements were first found by Prof. Baskerville in the monazite sand of North Carolina...
...Chemical Dictionary says "Berzelium, a supposed element of atomic weight 212 found by Baskerville in thorium salts...
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