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Rubidium
Rubidium – Rubidium – Rubidium – Rubídio – ルビジウム – Рубидий – 銣
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Rubidium Latin Germanic
Rubidium AfrikaansRubidium Danish Rubidium German Rubidium English Rubidium Faroese Rubidium Frisian (West) Rúbidín Icelandic Rubidium Luxembourgish Rubidium Dutch Rubidium Norwegian Rubidium Swedish Italic
Rubidio AragoneseRubidiumu Aromanian Rubidiu Asturian Rubidi Catalan Rubídio Spanish Rubidium French Rubidi Friulian Rubidio Galician Rubidio Italian Rübídi Lombard Rubidi Occitan Rubídio Portuguese Rubidiu Romanian - Moldovan Slavic
Рубидий [Rubidij] BulgarianRubidij[um] Bosnian Рубідый [rubidyj] Belarusian Rubidium Czech Rubidij Croatian Rubid Kashubian Рубидиум [Rubidium] Macedonian Rubid Polish Рубидий [Rubidij] Russian Rubidium Slovak Rubidij Slovenian Рубидијум [Rubidijum] Serbian Рубідій [rubidij] Ukrainian Baltic
Rubidis LithuanianRubīdijs Latvian Robėdis Samogitian Celtic
Rubidiom BretonRwbidiwm Welsh Rúbaidiam Gaelic (Irish) Rubaidiam Gaelic (Scottish) Rubiddjum Gaelic (Manx) Rubydyum Cornish Other Indo-European
Ρουβιdιο [rouvidio] GreekՌուբիդիում [ŗubidium] Armenian Rubid, ²Rubidium Albanian Indo-Iranian/Iranian
Rûbîdyûm KurdishРубидий [rubidij] Ossetian Рубидий [Rubidi'] Tajik Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan
রুবিডিয়াম [rubiḍiẏāma] Bengaliروبیدیم [rwbydym] Persian રૂબિડિયમનો [rūbiḍiyamano] Gujarati रुबिडियम [rubiḍiyama] Hindi Finno-Ugric
Rubiidium EstonianRubidium Finnish Rubídium Hungarian Рубидий [Rubidij] Komi Рубидий [Rubidij] Mari Рубиди [rubidi] Moksha Rubiidium Võro Altaic
Rubidium AzerbaijaniРубиди [Rubidi] Chuvash Рубидий [rûbidij] Kazakh Рубидий [Rubidij] Kyrgyz Рубиди [rubidi] Mongolian Rubidyum Turkish رۇبىدىي [rubidiy] Uyghur Rubidiy Uzbek Other (Europe)
Rubidioa Basqueრუბიდიუმი [rubidiumi] Georgian Afro-Asiatic
روبيديوم [rūbīdiyūm] Arabicרובידיום [rubidium] Hebrew Rubidju[m] Maltese Sino-Tibetan
Lù (銣) Hakkaルビジウム [rubijiumu] Japanese 루비듐 [rubidyum] Korean รูบิเดียม [rūbidiam] Thai Rubiđi Vietnamese 銣 [ru2 / yue6] Chinese Malayo-Polynesian
Rubidyo CebuanoRubidium Indonesian Rubidium Māori Rubidium Malay Other Asiatic
റൂബിഡിയം [ṟūbiḍiyam] Malayalamருபிடியம் [rupiţiyam] Tamil Africa
Libidu LingalaRubidiamo Sesotho Rubidi Swahili North-America
Rubidio NahuatlSouth-America
Rubidyu QuechuaCreole
Rubidimi Sranan TongoArtificial
Rubidio EsperantoNew names
Rubidion Atomic ElementsAntiH20delitho Dorseyville |
History & Etymology
Rubidium was discovered by Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824-1887) and Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-1899) at the University of Heidelberg, in 1861, when they noticed the existence of new spectral lines in the mineral lepidolite from Saxony (note).
Interesting is the note to Aulus Gellicus, a rather obscure Roman writer from the middle of the second century AD. Only one, incomplete book is left, the Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights). This work takes its name from having been begun during the long nights of a winter which he spent in Attica. In this work he had jotted down everything of unusual interest that he heard in conversation or read in books. Chapter 26 of the second book is about the words for the different colors in Latin and Greek, "Sermones M. Frontonis et Favorini philosophi de generibus colorum vocabulisque eorum Graecis et Latinis; atque inibi color «spadix» cuiusmodi sit"verse 8 is "Non enim haec sunt sola vocabula rufum colorem demonstrantia, quae tu modo dixisti, «russus» et «ruber», sed alia quoque habemus plura, quam quae dicta abs te Graeca sunt: «fulvus» enim et «flavus» et «rubidus» et «poeniceus» et «rutilus» et «luteus» et «spadix» appellationes sunt rufi coloris aut acuentes eum quasi incendentes aut cum colore viridi miscentes aut nigro infuscantes aut virenti sensim albo illuminantes."and 24: "«Rubidus» autem est rufus atrior et nigrore multo inustus, «luteus» contra rufus color est dilutior"(Thanks Dennis for the translations) The preparation of the metal was tried by Bunsen, but he never got samples with more than 18% of Rubidium. The separation of the metal was only accomplished by Hevesy, through the hydrolysis of melted Rubidium hydroxide. Later, Hevesy also obtained Rubidium through the reduction of that hydroxide Sodium, Potassium or hot Aluminum.
Chemistianity 1873
JAYAN
RUBIDIUM, an alkali metal, Is of white colour and quickly oxides; 'Tis a proved close ally to Potassium, and Cæsium, in Chemical action. J. Carrington Sellars, Chemistianity, 1873, p. 117-118
Further reading
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