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eka-boron en · NOUN

Etymology

From eka- + boron: the name given by Dmitri Mendeleev to the then undiscovered element at the position of scandium in his periodic table.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) scandium
    • In 1880, Nilson and Cleve discovered in a Scandinavian mineral a new element which had the properties of eka-boron. They called it Scandium. 1902, John Charles Hessler, Albert Lincoln Smith, Essentials of Chemistry: