Stabilization of the phase transformations in hafnium oxide
mixed with zirconium ores, the existence of hafnium vas camouflaged by. the more abundent zirconium element until 1923 4, 48). Although Coster and von Hevesy are credited with the discovery of. the element hafnium in 1923 (4951)> evidence of concentrations of this. element were claimed as early as I9II by Urbain (2).