Category:Vesbium

Ves"bi*um, n. Etym: [nl., from l. Vesuvius, contr. Vesbius, Vesuvius.] (chem.)

Defn: a rare metallic element of which little is known. It is said by Scacchi to have been extracted from a yellowish incrustation from the Cracks of a vesuvian lava erupted in 1631.