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Indium
Indium – Indium – Indium – Indio – インジウム – Индий – 銦
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Indo-European
Indium Latin Germanic
Indium AfrikaansIndium Danish Indium German Indium English Indium Faroese Indium Frisian (West) Indín Icelandic Indium Luxembourgish Indium Dutch Indium Norwegian Indium Swedish Italic
Indio AragoneseIndiumu Aromanian Indiu Asturian Indi Catalan Indio Spanish Indium French Indi Friulian Indio Galician Indio Italian Índi Lombard Indi Occitan Índio Portuguese Indiu Romanian - Moldovan Slavic
Индий [Indij] BulgarianIndij[um] Bosnian Iндый [indyj] Belarusian Indium Czech Indij Croatian Jind Kashubian Индиум [Indium] Macedonian Ind Polish Индий [Indij] Russian Indium Slovak Indij Slovenian Индијум [Indijum] Serbian Iндій [indij] Ukrainian Baltic
Indis LithuanianIndijs Latvian Ėndis Samogitian Celtic
Indiom BretonIndiwm Welsh Indiam Gaelic (Irish) Indiam Gaelic (Scottish) Indjum Gaelic (Manx) Eyndyum Cornish Other Indo-European
Ινδιο [indio] GreekԻնդիում [indium] Armenian Indium[i] Albanian Indo-Iranian/Iranian
Îndiyûm KurdishИндий [Indij] Ossetian Индий [Indi'] Tajik Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan
ইন্ডিয়াম [inḍiẏāma] Bengaliایندیم [ayndym] Persian ઇન્ડિયમનો [inḍiyamano] Gujarati इण्डियम [iṇḍiyama] Hindi Finno-Ugric
Indium EstonianIndium Finnish Indium Hungarian Индий [Indij] Komi Индий [Indij] Mari Инди [indi] Moksha Indium Võro Altaic
İndium AzerbaijaniИнди [Indi] Chuvash Индий [indij] Kazakh Индий [Indij] Kyrgyz Инди [indi] Mongolian İndiyum Turkish ئىندىي ['indiy] Uyghur Indiy Uzbek Other (Europe)
Indioa Basqueინდიუმი [indiumi] Georgian Afro-Asiatic
انديوم [indiyūm] Arabicאינדיום [indium] Hebrew Indju[m] Maltese Sino-Tibetan
Yîn (銦) Hakkaインジウム [injiumu] Japanese 인듐 [indyum] Korean อินเดียม [indiam] Thai Indi Vietnamese 銦 [yin1 / yan1] Chinese Malayo-Polynesian
Indyo CebuanoIndium Indonesian Indium Māori Indium Malay Other Asiatic
ഇന്ഡിയം [inḍiyam] Malayalamஇந்தியம் [intiyam] Tamil Africa
Indu LingalaIndiamo Sesotho Indi Swahili North-America
Indio NahuatlSouth-America
Indyu QuechuaCreole
Indimi Sranan TongoArtificial
Indio EsperantoNew names
Indion Atomic ElementsVitaminium Dorseyville |
History & Etymology
Indium was discovered in 1863, by the physics professor Ferdinand Reich (1799-1882) and his assistant Hieronymus Theodor Richter (1824-1898) at the Freiburg School of Mines (note), while they were checking sphalerite, a sulphide ore of Zinc, with a spectrograph looking for Thallium (which was discovered in 1861). Reich, who was colourblind, was assisted by Richter for the spectral analysis. After several attempts, Reich obtained a precipitate that he knew to be a sulfide of an unknown element. He then used several spectrographic techniques to identify the new element. Richter observed a bright blue stripe, unknown in any other spectrum and distinct from the blue stripe of Cesium. To this new element was given the name Indium because of the bright indigo blue spectral stripe. The pigment indigo, earlier indico, comes from Latin indicum, the Indian substance or dye. The Sanskrite name was nih, from nila, dark blue, and this through Arabic al-nil, annil, gives "aniline".
Native indium is extremely rare under natural conditions and only of scientific interest. Metallic indium was first obtained in 1867 by T. Richter.
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