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Hittorf's phosphorus en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824-1914) who first produced it in 1865. (Reference: John Emsley, The Shocking History of Phosphorus, 2000, →ISBN, page 304.)

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A purple crystalline allotrope of phosphorus.