Word.ws English Dictionary

balonium

UK/bəˈləʊ.ni.əm/US/bəˈloʊ.ni.əm/

balonium noun: a fictional chemical element.

Noun

balonium (uncountable)

  1. A fictional chemical element.
    • I assumed starship fuel (antimatter or balonium) could be produced from electricity with perfect conversion, so it cost exactly what electricity did — good enough for the one-digit-or-so accuracy needed.1990, Analog science fact, science fiction: Volume 110
    • Suppose that we have a Geiger counter and we are able to make measurements, during a ten hour period, of the balonium sample.1993, American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Education

Origin of balonium

From baloney + -ium. See baloney (“nonsense”).

Words that rhyme with balonium

15 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about balonium

What does balonium mean?
Balonium means a fictional chemical element.
What part of speech is balonium?
Balonium is a noun.
How do you pronounce balonium?
Balonium is pronounced /bəˈləʊ.ni.əm/ (UK).

Words near balonium in the dictionary

  1. baloney ponies
  2. baloney pony
  3. baloneys
  4. Balong Bato
  5. balonie
  6. balonium
  7. Balonne
  8. Balons
  9. Balook
  10. balopticon
  11. balopticons

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: balonium (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “balonium.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/balonium. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.