Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Columbium (alama "Cb") shine sunan da Hatchett ya ba shi a farkon gano ƙarfe a 1801. Sunan ya nuna cewa nau'in nau'in ma'adinai ya fito ne daga Amurka (Columbia). Wannan sunan ya kasance a cikin mujallu na Amurka - takarda ta ƙarshe da American Chemical Society ta buga tare da columbium a cikin taken ta daga 1953 - yayin da ake amfani da niobium a Turai. Don kawo karshen wannan rikice-rikice, an zaɓi sunan niobium don kashi 41 a taron 15 na Union of Chemistry a Amsterdam a 1949. Shekara guda daga baya wannan sunan ya karɓa a hukumance ta Unionungiyar International of Pure da Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) bayan shekaru 100 na rikici, duk da fifikon sunan columbium. Wannan ya kasance sulhu ne; IUPAC ya yarda da tungsten maimakon wolfram a cikin girmamawa ga amfani da Arewacin Amurka; da niobium maimakon columbium a cikin girmamawa ga amfani da Turai. Duk da yake da yawa US sunadarai al'ummomi da kuma kungiyoyin gwamnati yawanci amfani da hukuma IUPAC sunan, wasu metallurgists da karfe al'ummomi har yanzu amfani da asali American sunan, "columbium".  Tambaya: Mene ne IUPAC yake nufi?
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