GLUCINUM  , an alternative name for

Beryllium (q.v.) . When L . N . Vauquelin in 1798 published in the Annales de chimie an account of a new earth obtained by him from beryl he refrained from giving the substance a name, but in a note to his paper the editors suggested glucine, from yXvuvs, sweet, in reference to the taste of its salts, whence the name Glucinum or Glucinium (symbol G1. or sometimes G) . The name beryllium was given to the metal by German chemists and was generally used until recently, when the earlier name was adopted .