Cesium
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Discovery
Cesium was discovered spectroscopically by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff in 1860 in mineral water from Durkheim [3].
Origin of name
From Latin "caesius" meaning sky blue [3].