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AT a meeting of the council of the International Association of Chemical Societies in Brussels, last September, a committee on inorganic nomenclature, among other recommendations, endorsed the name and symbol “niobium” and “Nb”, for the element which was originally named columbium. As this recommendation is historically erroneous, a brief statement of the facts appears to be desirable.
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CLARKE, F. Columbium versus Niobium. Nature 92, 528–529 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092528b0
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