Word.ws English Dictionary

lavoisium

lavoisium noun: (obsolete) A supposed silvery-white, malleable, metallic chemical element, said to have been discovered in pyrites and some other minerals.

Noun

lavoisium (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A supposed silvery-white, malleable, metallic chemical element, said to have been discovered in pyrites and some other minerals.

Origin of lavoisium

From French Lavoisier + -ium, named after the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier.

Questions about lavoisium

What does lavoisium mean?
Lavoisium means (obsolete) A supposed silvery-white, malleable, metallic chemical element, said to have been discovered in pyrites and some other minerals.
What part of speech is lavoisium?
Lavoisium is a noun.

Words near lavoisium in the dictionary

  1. Lavistown
  2. Lavoie
  3. Lavoies
  4. Lavoisierian
  5. lavoisierite
  6. lavoisium
  7. lavolt
  8. lavolta
  9. lavoltas
  10. lavoltidine
  11. lavolts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lavoisium (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: “lavoisium.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lavoisium. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.