English Explanatory Dictionary

roentgenate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.

Word forms

roentgenate

Etymology

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

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