English Explanatory Dictionary

illinium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rejected name for promethium.

Word forms

illinium

Etymology

From Illinois + -ium, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which made an unverifiable claim to have discovered the element in 1926.

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