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The History of Element 43—Technetium
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Fathi Habashi
Department of Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Laval University, G1K 7P4 Quebec City, Canada
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February 2006
Vol. 83 No. 2
p. 213
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The article “From Masurium to Trinacrium: The Troubled Story of Element 43” by Roberto Zingales (1) is the best story so far published about the history of element 43—technetium. There is, however, one paragraph on the right column of page 226 that is questionable. The anonymous news item in Journal of
Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (2), referred to in ref 39 of the article erroneously as by P. H. Van Assche and J. T. Armstrong, cannot stand up to the well-documented assertion of the well-established physicist Paul K. Kuroda (1917–2001) in his paper, “A Note on the Discovery of Technetium” (3) that the Noddacks did not discover technetium, then known as masurium. More about this matter can be found in Kuroda’s book, The
Origin of Chemical Elements and the Oklo Phenomenon (4), and the book Ida
Noddack (1896–1978). Personal Recollections on the Occasion of 80th Anniversary of the Discovery of Rhenium (5) recently published by the writer and available from Laval University Bookstore “Zone” in Quebec City.
Literature Cited
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Zingales, R. J. Chem. Educ. 2005, 82, 221–227.
- J. Res. Nat. Inst. Stand. Tech. 1999, 104 (6), 599.
- Kuroda, P. K. A Note on the Discovery of Technetium. Nuclear
Physics 1989, A503, 178–182.
- Kuroda, P. K. The Origin of Chemical Elements and
the Oklo Phenomenon;
Springer Verlag: Berlin, 1982.
- Habashi, F. Ida Noddack (1896–1978). Personal Recollections
on the Occasion of 80th Anniversary of the Discovery of Rhenium; Laval University:
Quebec City, Canada, 2005.
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Habashi, Fathi. J. Chem. Educ. 2006 83 213.
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Analytical Chemistry; First-Year Undergraduate / General; High School / Introductory Chemistry; History / Philosophy; Isotopes; Nuclear / Radiochemistry; Periodicity / Periodic Table; Technetium; Textbooks / Reference Books
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