Carolinium and berzelium were the proposed names for new chemical elements that Charles Baskerville believed he had isolated from the already known element thorium .
2-485: Carolinum may refer to: Carolinium Carolinium During his time at the University of North Carolina , Baskerville experimented with thorium and published his results in 1901. He reported having separated thorium into three fractions with slightly different chemical properties: the known thorium and two new elements, carolinium (symbol Cn) and berzelium (symbol Bz). The names derived from two sources: As
4-417: A response to the publication Bohuslav Brauner claimed that he already stated the fact that thorium should be a mixture of several elements. In 1905, R. J. Meyer and A. Gumperz failed to replicate the results, and showed that thorium is only one element and not a mixture. H. G. Wells 's 1914 novel The World Set Free features an atomic bomb based on the similarly named "Carolinum". When detonated,
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