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Praseodymium unpaired

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Adrian Dingle relates how one ‘element’ that fell off the periodic table was eventually replaced by two.

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  1. Author of ‘The Elements: An Encyclopedic Tour of the Periodic Table’, teaches at Westminster, Atlanta, GA, USA

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Dingle, A. Praseodymium unpaired. Nature Chem 10, 576 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-018-0050-7

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