Noun
A supposed chemical element, later found to be a mixture of copper, iron, lead, nickel, etc.
Usage- Obsolete
- Uncountable
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It is known that Mine-commissioner Lampadius, of Freiberg, detected a new metal in this ore, differing as much from nickel as tellurium does from antimony, and to which he has given the name of wodanium.