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From allo- + bar. According to Alfred J. Henry, the meteorology sense was coined in Swedish by Nils Gustaf Ekholm.
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Today it means: Any form of an element having a different isotopic composition to that of the natural element, and thus a different atomic weight. Full definition →
From allo- + bar. According to Alfred J. Henry, the meteorology sense was coined in Swedish by Nils Gustaf Ekholm.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.