Homberg's phosphorus

English Etymology Named after its discoverer, the German chemist Wilhelm Homberg. Noun - en obsolete inorganic chemistry A poorly-characterized phosphorescent substance obtained by heating calcium chloride. en 1829 Thomas Curtis The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical and Homberg found, that if it (muriate of lime) was urged by a violent heat till it condensed, on cooling, into a vitreous mass, it emitted a phosphoric light upon being struck by any hard body, in which state it was called Homberg's phosphorus en eponyms