WOLLASTON, WILLIAM HYDE.

On the Identity of Columbium and Tantalum. Read June 8, 1809.

(London, Bulwer and Co., 1809). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London." Year 1809 - Part II. Pp. 246-252

First printing of a controversial paper in the history of chemistry.
"In 1809 Dr. Wollaston analyzed both columbite and tantalite (in the paper offered). His conclusion that columbium and tantalium are identical qwas accepted by chemists until 1846, when Henry Rose....questioned it."(Weekes in "Discovery of the Elements", p.83).

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