Debierne

American  

[duh-byern] / dəˈbyɛrn /

noun

1. André-Louis 1874–1949, French chemist.

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Debierne Scientific  

/ dəb-yĕrn′ /

1. French chemist who discovered actinium in 1900. In 1910 he collaborated with Marie Curie to isolate pure radium.

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Example Sentences

While working in 1899 with the uranium residues used by M. and Mme Curie for the preparation of radium, Debierne discovered and partially separated another radio-active element which he called actinium.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)

Such seems to be the idea of M. Debierne and also of M. Sagnac.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien

Similarly, by taking advantage of chemical relationship to the iron group of elements, another body was partially separated by Debierne, to which he gave the name actinium.

From A Brief Account of Radio-activity by Venable, Francis Preston

To that which accompanied barium taken from the same ore they called Radium and to the substance which was found among the rare earths of the pitchblende Debierne gave the name Actinium.

From Marvels of Modern Science by Severing, Paul