Ogawa’s nipponium and its re-assignment to rhenium

IF 1.8 3区化学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Foundations of Chemistry Pub Date : 2021-10-18 DOI:10.1007/s10698-021-09410-x

Yoji Hisamatsu, Kazuhiro Egashira, Yoshiteru Maeno

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Abstract

We re-examine the history of the element “nipponium” discovered by a Japanese chemist Masataka Ogawa in 1908. Since 1996 H.K. Yoshihara has made extensive research into Ogawa’s work and revealed evidence that nipponium proposed for the place of the atomic number of 43 was actually rhenium (75). In this paper, we provide critical re-interpretations of the existing information and confirmed that Ogawa left indisputable evidence that nipponium was in fact rhenium. We further discuss the reasons for the existing doubts and criticism against Ogawa’s discovery and Yoshihara’s interpretation, and attempt to resolve them.

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小川的nipponium及其对铼的重新分配

我们重新审视1908年由日本化学家小川正孝发现的“nipponium”元素的历史。自1996年以来，H.K. Yoshihara对小川的工作进行了广泛的研究，并发现了证据，证明原子序数为43的nipponium实际上是铼(75)。在本文中，我们对现有信息进行了批判性的重新解释，并证实小川留下了无可争辩的证据，证明nipponium实际上是铼。我们进一步讨论了对小川的发现和吉原的解释存在质疑和批评的原因，并试图解决这些问题。

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