An Elusive Shadow

Many attempts had been made to find the element, many scientists had thought they had succeeded and many different names were given to the newcomer in the periodic table. Some different steps in this laborious story are briefly described in Table 28.1, using information from ref [28.1]. 

1) For X-ray investigations and Moseley s law see section 10.7 in Chapter 10, Blowpipe and Spectroscope 

1877 Davyum S. Kern reported (Chem News, 1877, 36, The atomic weight of Kem s new 

He named the new metal in honor for of the great English chemist Sir Humphry Davy. 

Barriere (Chem News, 1896, 74, p.l59, 212, 214) was awarded a French patent for his new metal with the atomic weight 104. He described it as a novel illuminating body . 

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