Definition of Nebulium

1. Noun. (astronomy physics) A supposed element proposed as a result of spectral analysis of light from a nebula; the emission lines concerned are now known to be due to doubly-ionized oxygen ¹

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Definition of Nebulium

1. a hypothesized element now discredited [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nebulium

nebulated
nebulation
nebulations
nebule
nebules
nebulin
nebulins
nebulisation
nebulise
nebulised
nebuliser
nebulisers
nebulisers and vaporisers
nebulises
nebulising
nebulium (current term)
nebuliums
nebulization
nebulizations
nebulize
nebulized
nebulizer
nebulizers
nebulizes
nebulizing
nebulose
nebulosi
nebulosities
nebulosity
nebulosus

Literary usage of Nebulium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"27); the largest one of hydrogen, fourteen seconds of arc in diameter; a smaller one, corresponding to the first green line of the element nebulium, ..."

2. Problems in Astrophysics by Agnes Mary Clerke (1903)
"In other words, hydrogen is of seven times its normal lustre comparatively to nebulium. Further, the three lines, when viewed through an open slit, ..."

3. Some Physico-chemical Themes by Alfred Walter Stewart (1922)
"Lyra some of the nebulium lines are emitted by the interior of the nebula, others by its exterior, which shows that the so-called ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"Also, Campbell has found that in the nebula NGC Index 418, situated in the southern part of the constellation of Orion, the nebulium spectrum is found ..."

5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"There is thus much of ground, therefore, for linking together in genetic studies these stars, the Novce, and the helium-hydrogen-nebulium nebula*, ..."

6. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"There is thus much of ground, therefore, for linking together in genetic studies these stars, the Nova, and the helium-hydrogen-nebulium nebula*, ..."

7. A System of Physical Chemistry by William Cudmore McCullagh Lewis, James Rice (1921)
"Soc., 72, 49, 1911) has calculated the chief spectral lines of the hypothetical element nebulium, which, according to his theory, contains four electrons ..."

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