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Naming niobium
In 1801, Englishman Charles Hatchett analyzed an unknown metal from the United States and decided to call it columbium. Forty-three years later, the German mineralogist Heinrich Rose discovered the element again, which he named after Niobe, granddaughter of Zeus. As the Greek myth goes, Niobe boasted about her children so much that Apollo and Artemis killed them, causing her to weep until she turned into stone. Because Rose's discovery was identical to Hatchett's, it spawned another conflict. For over a century, chemists argued about what to call the element: niobium or columbium. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists (IUPAC) officially adopted the name niobium in 1950 but the name colombium is still used at times, especially by US commercial producers of the metal.
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