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meitnium

meitnium noun: (obsolete) A rejected name for protactinium.

Noun

meitnium (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A rejected name for protactinium.

Origin of meitnium

From Meitner + -ium, after Lise Meitner, after whom the element meitnerium was later named.

Questions about meitnium

What does meitnium mean?
Meitnium means (obsolete) A rejected name for protactinium.
What part of speech is meitnium?
Meitnium is a noun.

Words near meitnium in the dictionary

  1. Meiteization
  2. Meithei
  3. Meitheis
  4. Meitner
  5. meitnerium
  6. meitnium
  7. Meitram
  8. Meitzler
  9. Meitzlers
  10. Meixian
  11. Meixner

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