coronium

American  

[kuh-roh-nee-uhm] / kəˈroʊ ni əm /

noun

Astronomy.

1. a hypothetical element once thought to exist because certain spectral lines in the emission spectrum of the solar corona could not be identified by known elements. These lines were subsequently found to be emitted by certain highly ionized metals.

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Etymology

Origin of coronium

First recorded in 1885–90; coron(a) + -ium

Example Sentences

This line had never been seen before, and so it was assumed that this line was the result of a new element found in the corona, quickly named coronium.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

It is fairly certain that it contains both gas and a metal, called coronium, which is unknown on the earth, but somewhat resembles iron.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some astronomers once thought these indicated a new element, "coronium."

From Time Magazine Archive

Three years ago Dr. Donald Howard Menzel of Harvard, unwilling to believe in "coronium," suggested that the spectrum lines supposedly caused by it might really come from excited atoms of oxygen.

From Time Magazine Archive

One blank space, it is thought, may be filled some day by the gas coronium, which like helium has been discovered in the sun, but unlike it has not yet been detected here.

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