Carolinium
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Carolinium and berzelium were the proposed names for new
Charles Baskerville believed he had isolated from the already known element thorium
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During his time at the University of North Carolina, Baskerville experimented with thorium and published his results in 1901.[1] He reported having separated thorium into three fractions with slightly different chemical properties: the known thorium and two new elements, carolinium (symbol Cn) and berzelium (symbol Bz).
The names derived from two sources:
- the first element was named for the State in which the university was located at which the experiments were done, North Carolina, and
- the other element was named after
As a response to the publication Bohuslav Brauner claimed that he already stated the fact that thorium should be a mixture of several elements.[3]
In 1905, R. J. Meyer and A. Gumperz failed to replicate the results, and showed that thorium is only one element and not a mixture.[4]
atomic bomb based on the similarly named "Carolinum". When detonated, the bomb continues to explode indefinitely.[5]
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- ^ Wells, H. G. (1914). "2". The World Set Free.
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