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roentgenate

roentgenate noun: a salt or derivative of roentgenic acid, similar in structure or composition to a gold salt due to the placement of roentgenium (Rg, element 111) in the periodic table.

Noun

roentgenate (uncountable)

  1. A salt or derivative of roentgenic acid, similar in structure or composition to a gold salt due to the placement of roentgenium (Rg, element 111) in the periodic table.

Origin of roentgenate

From German Röntgen (“Roentgen”) (the surname of physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, discoverer of X-rays) + the chemical suffix -ate.

Questions about roentgenate

What does roentgenate mean?
Roentgenate means a salt or derivative of roentgenic acid, similar in structure or composition to a gold salt due to the placement of roentgenium (Rg, element 111) in the periodic table.
What part of speech is roentgenate?
Roentgenate is a noun.

Words near roentgenate in the dictionary

  1. Roentgen radiation
  2. Roentgen ray
  3. roentgen-cinematography
  4. Roentgen-ray
  5. Roentgen-rays
  6. roentgenate
  7. roentgencinematography
  8. roentgenise
  9. roentgenised
  10. roentgenises
  11. roentgenising

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