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Prof. F. A. Paneth and also Prof. E. Segrè have directed attention (Nature, January 4, p. 8 and p. 24) to the unconfirmed claim by I. and W. Noddack to the discovery of element 43 which they named 1 'masurium' . Apart from a fantastic patent specification2, they brought forward no chemical evidence to show that they had discovered this element.
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DRUCE, G. Elements of Atomic Numbers 43 and 75. Nature 159, 205 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159205a0
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