nebulium
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nebulium
Example Sentences
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Certain unfamiliar lines in the spectra of far off nebulae have long been thought by astronomers to be made by a mysterious element which they called nebulium.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Accordingly they created by mutual consent a new element, called it "nebulium," and doubted that it existed.
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When this nebula is observed with a slitless spectrograph the hydrogen and nebulium components are seen as circular discs, but the hydrogen discs are larger than the nebulium discs.
From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous
The whole thing aglow with the green light of nebulium and blazing with the stars behind it.
From Out Around Rigel by Wilson, Robert H.
The nebulium lines are relatively strong in the central denser parts of the Orion and Trifid nebulae, but the hydrogen bright-lines are relatively very strong in the faint outlying parts of these nebulae.
From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous
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