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11 letters · 18 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles
originFrom California + -ium. The element was first synthesized at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (then the University of California Radiation Laboratory), thus named after the university and the U.S. state of California.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- aciniform 16
- formulaic 16
- fumarolic 16
- lanciform 16
- cuniform 15
- francium 15
- fulminic 15
- unciform 15
- aciform 14
- confirm 14
- formica 14
- fumaric 14