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alabamine

alabamine noun: former name for the chemical element astatine.

Noun

alabamine (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Former name for the chemical element astatine.

Origin of alabamine

From Alabama + -ine, after a discredited claim of discovery by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.

Questions about alabamine

What does alabamine mean?
Alabamine means former name for the chemical element astatine.
What part of speech is alabamine?
Alabamine is a noun.

Words near alabamine in the dictionary

  1. Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town
  2. Alabaman
  3. Alabamans
  4. Alabamian
  5. Alabamians
  6. alabamine
  7. alabamium
  8. Alabammer
  9. Alabamy
  10. alabandite
  11. alabandites

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