Austrium

Austrium is proposed by Eduard Linnemann in 1886 name for a new chemical element. Linnemann dealt as a chemist at the German University of Prague in the course of several years the investigation of the mineral allanite (won in Arendal, Norway ), where he supposed that while they have identified spectral lines at 4165 and 4030 angstroms any of the known would have been attributed to elements. The publication of these findings, but was only shortly after his death by F. Lippich, who submitted the manuscript in the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Prague, where it was discussed at the meeting of 6 May 1886, then published in the journal Monatshefte fur Chemie.

Subsequently, however, showed Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran out that Linnemanns results can be reconciled with that described by Lecoq himself in 1875 element gallium quite. Finally, Richard Pribram took a student Linnemanns, at the University of Czernowitz the question, and could confirm that Linnemanns Austrium actually posed no new element, but rather - as already suspected by Lecoq - nothing more than gallium was. At the same now fancied Pribram, in turn, have discovered yet unidentified spectral lines of a new element, for which he again proposed the name in homage to Austrium Linnemann. Finally, in further studies could not be confirmed this hypothesis.