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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Columbium

· Co·lum·bi·um · IPA
01 n. A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam. Atomi…
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    A rare element of the vanadium group, first found in a variety of the mineral columbite occurring in Connecticut, probably at Haddam. Atomic weight 94.2. Symbol Cb or Nb. Now more commonly called niobium.(Chem.) Also: niobium