Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gaseous element, unidentified as yet and thus far detected only in the solar corona.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem. & Astron.) The principal gaseous substance forming the solar corona, characterized by a green line in the coronal spectrum.

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  • noun A supposed chemical element, hypothesized in the 19th century in order to explain a green emission line seen during a solar eclipse (actually highly ionized iron).

Etymologies

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corona +‎ -ium

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Examples

  • What of that element unknown to us as part of earth which is seen only in the corona of the sun at eclipse that we call coronium?

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • What of that element unknown to us as part of earth which is seen only in the corona of the sun at eclipse that we call coronium?

    The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913

  • It consists of various elements which exist in a condition of extreme tenuity; hydrogen, helium, and a substance called coronium appear to predominate, whilst finely divided shining particles of matter and electrical discharges resembling those of an aurora assist in its illumination.

    The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

  • Several skilled observers failed to see it at all; but Young and Eastman succeeded in tracing the green "coronium" ray all round the sun, to a height estimated at 340,000 miles.

    A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

  • The originating substance, designated "coronium," of which nothing is known to terrestrial chemistry, continues luminous [523] at least 300,000 miles above the sun's surface, and is hence presumably much lighter even than hydrogen.

    A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

  • ( "coronium"), and also a faint continuous spectrum, in which even a few of the more prominent dark lines of the solar spectrum have been sometimes detected.

    The Story of the Heavens 1876

  • "coronium" has been given to the substance causing it.

    History of Astronomy George Forbes 1892

  • I myself believe that they were probably solid — in a way of speaking — coronium.

    The Metal Monster 2004

  • And what miracles are there in coronium and nebulium which, as the child of nebula and sun, we inherit?

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • Since the ship was made of the Venerian metal, coronium, which was only slightly magnetic, the plate was obviously the magnet's only load.

    The Black Star Passes John Wood Campbell 1940

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