English Explanatory Dictionary

virginium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rejected name for francium.

Word forms

virginium

Etymology

From Virginia (US state) + -ium, proposed in 1930 by Fred Allison, whose claim to have discovered the element was later disproven.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on V Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary