Ekabor vs. Ekaboron
Ekabornoun
The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; - so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium.
Ekaboronnoun
(chemistry) the name given by Dmitri Mendeleev to the predicted element (scandium) lying below boron in the periodic table
