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Aurum album

Two people are responsible for the discovery of tellurium. First, Franz Joseph Muller von Reichenstein (1743—1825), chief inspector of a gold mine in Transylvania (part of Romania), experimented with the ores in his mine between 1782 and 1783. From an ore known as aurum album, he extracted an element that, at first, was thought to be antimony. He sent a sample to Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743—1817), who 16 years later correctly identified it as a new element and named it tellurium. However, Klaproth gave Franz Joseph Muller credit for the discovery. [Pg.240]

In 1782 Muller extracted from a bluish white ore of gold (called aurum problematicum, aurum paradoxum, or aurum album) a metal which A. von Rupprecht thought to be antimony. Mullers paper announcing... [Pg.303]

Tellurium was discovered in 1782 by Franz Josef Muller von Reichenstein from Transylvanian gold ore known as aurum album. Initially he believed he had isolated antimony but realized shortly that it was a previously unknown element. Since Muller von Reichenstein published his findings in an obscure journal, the work was forgotten until 1798 when Martin Heinrich Klaproth, a German chemist, confirmed the discovery of the new metal and gave it the name tellurium, which derives from Latin tellus = Earth. ... [Pg.4783]

And this white gold is called by the philosophers "luna alba philosophorum, argentum vivum album fixum, aurum alchymiae, and fumus albus" [white philosophical silver, white fixed mercury, alchemical gold and white (something)] and therefore without this our antimonial vinegar, the aurum... [Pg.2]


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