English Explanatory Dictionary

Hittorf's phosphorus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A purple crystalline allotrope of phosphorus.

Word forms

Hittorf's phosphorus

Etymology

Named after Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824-1914) who first produced it in 1865. (Reference: John Emsley, The Shocking History of Phosphorus, 2000, →ISBN, page 304.)

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