Etymology

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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 →

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The story

From allo- + bar. According to Alfred J. Henry, the meteorology sense was coined in Swedish by Nils Gustaf Ekholm.

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