Dirk Coster

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Dirk Coster

Dutch physicist

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Georg Charles von Hevesy
…discovered, with the Dutch physicist Dirk Coster, the element hafnium.
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…discovered, with the Dutch physicist Dirk Coster, the element hafnium.
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hafnium
The Dutch physicist Dirk Coster and the Hungarian Swedish chemist George Charles von Hevesy discovered (1923) hafnium in Norwegian and Greenland zircons by analyzing their X-ray spectra. They named the new element for Copenhagen (in New Latin, Hafnia), the city in which it was discovered. Hafnium is dispersed…
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The Dutch physicist Dirk Coster and the Hungarian Swedish chemist George Charles von Hevesy discovered (1923) hafnium in Norwegian and Greenland zircons by analyzing their X-ray spectra. They named the new element for Copenhagen (in New Latin, Hafnia), the city in which it was discovered. Hafnium is dispersed…
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