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    Technetium (43) was the first synthetic element, but a few years before its "creation" two chemists erroneously claimed to have detected it in nature. Who were they and how did they name the element?

    Question #92646. Asked by gentlegiant17. (Feb 21 08 5:15 AM)


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    		Discovery of the element in nature was erroneously claimed in 1925 by the German chemists I. W. and W. K. Noddack, who called it masurium. The element was discovered in 1937 by C. Perrier and E. G. Segrè of Italy in a sample of molybdenum that was bombarded with deuterons in a cyclotron at the Univ. of California at Berkeley and sent to them by E. O. Lawrence.

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    Feb 21 08, 5:35 AM

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